| 1 | 0–68 | 545 | T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm | 0.79 | BAck from th'umbrageous caves (still robbed of rest) Must I return, where Phoebus guilds the fields, A Ghost n… |
| 2 | 69–137 | 546 | unassigned | | To Alexandria to transport me once, Not moved by love, no, for another end, In hope my Fortune will attend my … |
| 3 | 138–205 | 541 | unassigned | | The pleasures far exceeded are by pain: Life greater grief than comfort still affords. What grief, no, rather … |
| 4 | 206–288 | 545 | unassigned | | Each of their spirits that hath a spark of mine, To ruin all the world, may furnish fires. The Beauties of the… |
| 5 | 289–368 | 543 | unassigned | | To all her offsprings shame, Shall burst th'earth's veins with blood, And this all-circling flood, (As it the … |
| 6 | 369–432 | 503 | unassigned | | The Macedonians (swollen with wrath) would scorn, That to their King a stranger should succeed: Can men obey a… |
| 7 | 433–496 | 515 | unassigned | | Though silence (I confess) becomes me best, Who, am a stranger, and the less believed, Yet of your toils since… |
| 8 | 497–550 | 428 | unassigned | | I wonder not though thus Perdiccas shrink, To take this place, still bragged with new alarms: The Sun must mak… |
| 9 | 551–614 | 510 | unassigned | | None needs to wonder much, though we neglect One whose election might procure our shame: His mother's baseness… |
| 10 | 615–680 | 503 | unassigned | | I hear a tumult raised amongst the Tents, And Arideus is proclaimed King: To which the multitude (soon changed… |
| 11 | 681–744 | 499 | unassigned | | With eyes that flame for rage, our deeds heaven views, And (moved for us) a high disdain doth bear; Lo, all me… |
| 12 | 745–809 | 504 | unassigned | | O! what excellency consists in th' one, (Though oft not marked till missed) clear at this hour: Some with a wo… |
| 13 | 810–870 | 499 | unassigned | | That if his life was ill, it might be short. The King ●nrag'd, that I had thus presumed To limit his revenge b… |
| 14 | 871–939 | 492 | unassigned | | No chance of late hath brought me so to bow, But I have thrown some thoughts at those high hopes: Yet in my mi… |
| 15 | 940–1013 | 515 | unassigned | | The first who spoiled the public rest, And did disturb this quiet state, Was Avarice, the greatest pest Which … |
| 16 | 1014–1076 | 500 | unassigned | | One humorous head that doth in brawls delight, May poison thousands with the gall of spite. As still seditious… |
| 17 | 1077–1144 | 513 | unassigned | | To ruin lofty minds when least afraid, Whilst careless carriage jealous censures sift, By spies abroad to foes… |
| 18 | 1145–1210 | 515 | unassigned | | Thus, we who erst below one ensign warred, Slept in one Tent, and all one Fortune proved, And (with a friendsh… |
| 19 | 1211–1276 | 510 | unassigned | | If after you, none of your own remain To keep your Conquests, and revive your name? Kings live most safe who o… |
| 20 | 1277–1332 | 453 | unassigned | | Yet this opinion partly I disprove, Which would not (as you think) our troubles end: For, if we do from hence … |
| 21 | 1333–1394 | 501 | unassigned | | Ah! to what corner rolls my watery sight, Where it not finds some matter to bemoan? O foolish eyes! why lose y… |
| 22 | 1395–1458 | 504 | unassigned | | What danger huge was threatened to his state, The which elsewhere might better be controlled: But he who was n… |
| 23 | 1459–1519 | 476 | unassigned | | You need not use those execrations more, Though Babylon of breath that Prince deprived, Yet (as an Oracle had … |
| 24 | 1520–1578 | 481 | unassigned | | To draw his love from me did ways prepare, Yet were their slights by duteous love o'erthrown, And I respected … |
| 25 | 1579–1667 | 514 | unassigned | | Lo, now of late delivered of a son, I to those Captains scarce dare make it known, His kingdoms all to part wh… |
| 26 | 1668–1747 | 510 | unassigned | | Do all base slights assay; What can brave minds dismay, Whose worth is like a Tower, Against all fortune's pow… |
| 27 | 1748–1811 | 487 | unassigned | | Lo, when prosperity too much prevails, Above the judgement thus of vulgar minds, As little Barges burdened wit… |
| 28 | 1812–1875 | 516 | unassigned | | When Neoptolemus did clearly spy, That all his treason to the light was brought, He, where our foes were campe… |
| 29 | 1876–1939 | 512 | unassigned | | With endless glory bend to change his breath, Of desp'rate valour all the power was proved, And for great Capt… |
| 30 | 1940–2002 | 499 | unassigned | | I wish that Soldiers never could be brought To prove so mutinous as they oft have been, And that they durst no… |
| 31 | 2003–2063 | 493 | unassigned | | I by love past, proportion then my spite; And yet (Eumenes) I commend thy mind, Who to defend thy friend, hast… |
| 32 | 2064–2123 | 481 | unassigned | | And yet I think you have an easy part, To whom his State your Father did resign, For, it may make you smile, w… |
| 33 | 2124–2179 | 448 | unassigned | | Those were the means which did them first entrap, But have you heard how after they were thrall, To plague the… |
| 34 | 2180–2247 | 530 | unassigned | | But yet this sacrifice could not assuage The boiling thoughts of her unbounded will: For, entering thus she ri… |
| 35 | 2248–2303 | 471 | unassigned | | Yet of Olympias (though cast down by you) The fight her Son and Husband will revive, And so may make the Maced… |
| 36 | 2304–2368 | 517 | unassigned | | The raging streams of a tempestuous flood, Which drowns the old, not yields the young relief? What fool who of… |
| 37 | 2369–2431 | 518 | T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions | 0.73 | Who in the Country leadest a guiltless life! From Fortune's reach retired, obscure, secure, Though not a Queen… |
| 38 | 2432–2497 | 515 | unassigned | | Heaven's plague Cassander, let that base wretch try That Iove his judgement but a while defers; And let his wi… |
| 39 | 2498–2561 | 511 | unassigned | | Do by the fires which they first kindled burn; Of other tyrants which oppress the mind, With pleasure some del… |
| 40 | 2562–2625 | 498 | unassigned | | LOg have I used that light which clears my mind, On Nature's labours curiously to look, And (of all creatures … |
| 41 | 2626–2690 | 477 | T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi | 0.70 | I think all Monarchies are like the Moon, Which now eclipsed, now under cloud, now clear, Grows by degrees, an… |
| 42 | 2691–2750 | 476 | T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi | 0.82 | All princes would suppress aspirers still: And than a subjects course most dangerous proves, When either fear,… |
| 43 | 2751–2809 | 472 | unassigned | | Do merit scorn, though they amazement breed: The world them pity more than Envy owes, Who to seem happy wretch… |
| 44 | 2810–2867 | 473 | unassigned | | Lo! how the Heavens, whose love to man exceeds, Have made his body strong, his mind divine, And have made th'e… |
| 45 | 2868–2925 | 467 | T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi | 0.85 | What then himself can be more near to man? When bragged by danger who would not be moved? And if Olympias had … |
| 46 | 2926–2989 | 489 | unassigned | | Thus time let truth of all things doth proclaim: Man is a crafty Creature, had to know, Who can a face for eve… |
| 47 | 2990–3050 | 486 | T8 Captains, gallants and cheats | 0.81 | Whileas Eumenes fortunately lived, The Ag●raspides to him gave place, Till that for state two of their Captain… |
| 48 | 3051–3113 | 487 | unassigned | | And make you live (abominable band) Base vagabonds, barred from your native bounds, Then die detested in a har… |
| 49 | 3114–3179 | 517 | unassigned | | Then let us from Antigonus in haste Demand our share of what he did attain; Since in this war we did our Treas… |
| 50 | 3180–3241 | 508 | unassigned | | Then wound our ears by hearing others wounds, That pity now may tread the steps of hate. Our Queen Olympias (r… |
| 51 | 3242–3309 | 534 | unassigned | | Then did Cassander know that need constrained Her so to bow, as every way diseased: And, though he her request… |
| 52 | 3310–3365 | 456 | unassigned | | O strange barbarity, most monstrous deed! Can men a woman, Subjects kill their Queen: And could her fortune pa… |
| 53 | 3366–3425 | 461 | unassigned | | Since that world's conqueror then whilst far from fear, (By too much power pressed) so soon was dead: Why do h… |
| 54 | 3426–3481 | 456 | T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi | 0.88 | No charge on th'earth more weighty to discharge, Then that which of a kingdom doth dispose: O! those who manag… |