The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume VI
by Aphra Behn
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La Môntre: or, The Lover's Watch, 'Licensed 2 Aug. 1686. R.L.S.' is taken by Mrs. Behn from La Môntre of Balthazar de Bonnecorse. After having received an excellent education at Marseilles, where he was born, de Bonnecorse was appointed consul at Cairo, and later transferred to Sidon in the Levant. Whilst at Cairo he composed La Môntre, a mixture of prose and verse, which he sent to the great arbiter of Parisian taste, Georges de Scudéri, under whose care it was printed in 1666 at Paris. It was followed in 1671 by the second part, la Boëte et le Miroir, dedicated to the Duke de Vivonne. Upon h...
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- THE WORKS OF APHRA BEHN
- CONTENTS.
- THE LOVER'S WATCH.
- INTRODUCTION.
- To Peter Weston, Esq.; Of The Honourable Society Of The Inner-Temple.
- To the Admir'd ASTREA.
- To the Incomparable Author.
- To the most ingenious ASTREA, upon her Book intituled, La Môntre, or the Lover's Watch.
- To the Divine ASTREA, on her Môntre.
- To his admired Friend, the most ingenious Author.
- La Monstre. The Lover's WATCH: or, the ART of making LOVE.
- The ARGUMENT.
- IRIS to DAMON.
- EIGHT o'CLOCK.
- NINE o'CLOCK.
- TEN o'CLOCK.
- ELEVEN o'CLOCK.
- TWELVE o'CLOCK.
- ONE o'CLOCK.
- TWO o'CLOCK.
- THREE o'CLOCK.
- FOUR o'CLOCK.
- FIVE o'CLOCK.
- SIX o'CLOCK.
- SEVEN o'CLOCK.
- EIGHT o'CLOCK.
- NINE o'CLOCK.
- TEN o'CLOCK.
- ELEVEN o'CLOCK.
- TWELVE o'CLOCK.
- ONE o'CLOCK.
- TWO o'CLOCK.
- THREE o'CLOCK.
- FOUR o'CLOCK.
- FIVE o'CLOCK.
- SIX o'CLOCK.
- SEVEN o'CLOCK.
- The CASE for the WATCH.
- DAMON to IRIS.
- The FIGURE of the CASE.
- The First CYPHER.
- The Second CYPHER,
- The Third CYPHER.
- The Fourth CYPHER.
- The CLASP of the WATCH.
- The LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS, to Dress her self by: or, The Art of Charming.
- Sent from DAMON to IRIS.
- IRIS's LOOKING-GLASS.
- The SHAPE of IRIS.
- IRIS's COMPLEXION.
- IRIS's HAIR.
- IRIS's EYES.
- The MOUTH of IRIS.
- The NECK of IRIS.
- The ARMS and HANDS of IRIS.
- The GRACE and AIR of IRIS.
- The DISCRETION of IRIS.
- The GOODNESS and COMPLAISANCE of IRIS.
- The WIT of IRIS.
- The MODESTY of IRIS.
- POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS: WITH A VOYAGE TO THE ISLAND OF LOVE.
- To the Right Honourable, JAMES, Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cramborn, and Baron of Islington.
- To Mrs. BEHN, on the publishing her Poems.
- To ASTRÆA, on her Poems.
- To the excellent Madam Behn, on her Poems.
- To the Authour, on her Voyage to the Island of Love.
- To the Lovely Witty ASTRÆA, on her Excellent Poems.
- Upon these and other Excellent Works of the Incomparable ASTRÆA.
- To the excellent ASTRÆA.
- To Madam A. Behn on the publication of her Poems.
- To Madam Behn, on her Poems.
- POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
- The Golden Age.
- A Farewel to Celladon, On his Going into Ireland.
- On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks.
- On the Death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter.
- A Ballad on Mr. J. H. to Amoret, asking why I was so sad.
- Our Cabal.
- Mr. V. U.
- Mr. G. V.
- My dear Brother J. C.
- My dear Amoret, Mrs. B.
- Mr. J. B.
- Mr. Je. B.
- Mr. N. R. V.
- Mr. E. B. and Mrs. F. M.
- Mr. J. H.
- Mr. Ed. Bed.
- SONG. The Willing Mistriss.
- SONG. Love Arm'd.
- SONG. The Complaint.
- SONG. The Invitation.
- SONG.
- To Mr. Creech (under the Name of Daphnis) on his Excellent Translation of Lucretius.
- To Mrs. W. On her Excellent Verses (Writ in Praise of some I had made on the Earl of Rochester) Written in a Fit of Sickness.
- The Sence of a Letter sent me, made into Verse; To a New Tune.
- The Return.
- On a Copy of Verses made in a Dream, and sent to me in a Morning before I was Awake.
- To my Lady Morland at Tunbridge.
- Song to Ceres. In the Wavering Nymph, or Mad Amyntas.
- Song in the same Play, by the Wavering Nymph.
- The Disappointment.
- On a Locket of Hair Wove in a True-Loves Knot, given me by Sir R. O.
- The Dream. A Song.
- A letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation.
- The Reflection: A Song.
- SONG. To Pesibles Tune.
- SONG. On her Loving Two Equally. Set by Captain Pack.
- The Counsel. A Song. Set by Captain Pack.
- SONG. The Surprize. Set by Mr. Farmer.
- SONG.
- The Invitation: A Song.
- Silvio's Complaint: A Song.
- In Imitation of Horace.
- To Lysander, who made some Verses on a Discourse of Loves Fire.
- A Dialogue for an Entertainment at Court, between Damon and Sylvia.
- On Mr. J. H. In a Fit of Sickness.
- To Lysander, on some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart then 'twas worth.
- To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy called The New Utopia.
- To Lysander at the Musick-Meeting.
- An Ode to Love.
- Love Reveng'd, A Song.
- SONG. To a New Scotch Tune.
- The Cabal at Nickey Nackeys.
- A Paraphrase on the Eleventh Ode Out of the first Book of Horace.
- A Translation.
- A Paraphrase on OVID'S Epistle of ŒNONE to PARIS.
- THE ARGUMENT.
- A Voyage to the Isle of Love.
- INTRODUCTION.
- A VOYAGE to the ISLE OF LOVE.
- An Account from Lisander to Lysidas his Friend.
- The Truce.
- LOVE's Power.
- The CHARACTER.
- RESPECT.
- INQUIETUDE.
- The REFLECTION.
- Little CARES, or Little Arts to please.
- The DREAM.
- HOPE.
- The River of PRETENSION.
- The Princess HOPE.
- LOVE's Resentment.
- The City of DISCRETION.
- The silent Confession.
- The Den of Cruelty.
- The River of Despair.
- The RESOLVE.
- The QUESTION.
- The TRANSPORT.
- CONFIDENCE.
- The REFLECTION.
- ABSENCE.
- To LOVE.
- RIVALS.
- JEALOUSIE.
- The COMPLAINT.
- The PENITENT.
- The City of LOVE.
- LOVE's Temple.
- HONOUR.
- The LOSS.
- The Prospect and Bower of Bliss.
- A TABLE.
- LYCIDUS: OR, THE LOVER IN FASHION, &c.
- To the EARL OF MELFORD, &c., Knight of the most Noble Order of the Thistle.
- To Mrs. B. on her Poems.
- LYCIDUS: or, the Lover in Fashion, &c.
- A MISCELLANY OF POEMS.
- On the Honourable Sir Francis Fane, on his Play call'd the Sacrifice, by Mrs. A. B.
- To Damon.
- To inquire of him if he cou'd tell me by the Style, who writ me a Copy of Verses that came to me in an unknown Hand, by Mrs. A. B.
- To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition. ODE. by Mrs. B.
- To Alexis, On his saying, I lov'd a Man that talk'd much, by Mrs. B.
- A PASTORAL PINDARICK.
- On the Marriage of the Right Honourable the Earle of Dorset and Middlesex, to the Lady Mary Compton. A Dialogue. Between Damon and Aminta. By Mrs. Behn.
- On Desire. A Pindarick. By Mrs. B.
- To Amintas. Upon reading the Lives of some of the Romans.
- On the first discovery of falseness in Amintas. By Mrs. B.
- To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me, imagin'd more than Woman. By Mrs. B.
- WESTMINSTER DROLLERY, 1671.
- A SONG.
- Miscellany, 1685.
- To SIR WILLIAM CLIFTON.
- On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester,
- SONG. By A. B.
- A SONG. By Mrs. A. B.
- A PARAPHRASE on the LORDS PRAYER. By Mrs. A. B.
- SELINDA and CLORIS, made in an Entertainment at Court. By Mrs. A. B.
- A PINDARIC to Mr. P. who sings finely. By Mrs. A. B.
- On the Author of that Excellent Book Intituled The Way to Health, Long Life, and Happiness. By Mrs. A. B.
- Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the last of Seven that died before. By Mrs. A. B.
- Epilogue to the Jealous Lovers.
- A PASTORAL to Mr. Stafford, Under the Name of SILVIO on his Translation of the Death of Camilla: out of VIRGIL. By Mrs. Behn.
- THIRSIS and AMARILLIS.
- GILDON'S MISCELLANY, 1692.
- VENUS and CUPID.
- Verses design'd by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a fair Lady, that desir'd she would absent herself to cure her Love. Left unfinish'd.
- Verses by Madam Behn, never before printed. On a Conventicle.
- GILDON'S CHORUS POETARUM, 1694.
- MUSES MERCURY, June, 1707.
- The Complaint of the poor Cavaliers.
- On a Pin that hurt Amintas' Eye.
- To Mrs. Harsenet, on the Report of a Beauty, which she went to see at Church.
- For Damon, being ask'd a Reason for his Love.
- FAMILIAR LETTERS, 1718.
- A Letter to the Earl of Kildare, dissuading him from marrying Moll Howard.
- To Mrs. Price.
- P. S. A SONG.
- PROLOGUE to ROMULUS,
- EPILOGUE to the Same.
- Mrs. Behn's Satyr on Dryden.
- VALENTINIAN.
- To Henry Higden, Esq.; on his Translation of the Tenth Satyr of Juvenal.
- On the Death of E. Waller, Esq.;
- A PINDARIC POEM to the Reverend Doctor Burnet, on the Honour he did me of Enquiring after me and my MUSE.
- NOTES.
- La Monstre (1686).
- Poems Upon Several Occasions (1684).
- LYCIDUS (1688).
- Notes: Critical and Explanatory.
- La Monstre.
- Poems Upon Several Occasions (1684).
- Lycidus (1688).
- Miscellany, 1685.
- Index of First Lines.
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