First lines: ‘To St Giles I went, | One Sunday this Lent’.
The heading begins: ‘Instructions for our right Trusty and well beloved Robert Viscount Bodmyn Whome we have appoynted Our Envoyé Extraordinary to Denmarke.’
Headed ‘A Catalogue’.
First line: ‘Our Prologues Wit grows flat: the Nap’s worn off’.
First line: ‘Since there are som that, with me, see the State’. Subscribed ‘1682.’
First line: ‘After thinking this Fortnight of Whig and of Tory’. Subscribed ‘1682.’
First line: ‘Let the Commons hunt their Plots, with a hey’. Subscribed ‘1680.’
First line: ‘Curst be those dull unpointed Dogrel Rhymes.’
Motto: ‘Quem Natura neget facit indignatio versum qualem cungi potest’ (adapted from Juvenal, Satires, i. 79–80 (‘cungi’ should read ‘cunque’)). First line: ‘I who from drinking nere cou’d spare an hour’. The poem refers to several events of 1682.
First line: ‘How our good King does Papists hate’. Subscribed ‘1680.’
First line: ‘Soon as you read my Theme, I’m sure you’l ask’.
First line: ‘Behold the Genius of our Land’.
First line: ‘Assist me, Stanhop, while I Sing’.
First line: ‘Near Hampton Court there lyes a Common’.
First line: ‘Tir’d with the noisom Follies of the Age’. Subscribed ‘1680.’
First line: ‘Hast thou at last that Mother Church too quited’. Last line: ‘And have no hope of Heaven by his Word.’
First line: ‘When Plate was at pawn, and Fob at an eb’.
First line (after speech-heading): ‘While I in the Camp’.
First line: ‘You good men of Middesex, Countrymen dear’. Subscribed ‘1680.’
First line: ‘When Noble Prince George’.
First line: ‘Methinks I see our mighty Monarch Stand’. Subscribed ‘1680.’
First line: ‘Who wou’d have thought my ruin was so near’.
First line: ‘Under this Stone do’s lye’.
First line: ‘Well did the Fates guide thy unlucky Arm’.
First line: ‘Curse on those Criticks, ignorant and Vain’. Subscribed ‘1680.’