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Charles Goodall

1671–1689

Charles Goodall (1671–1689) is known only through one posthumous-looking book, Poems and Translations, Written upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons (1689), whose title page says merely that it is "by a late Scholar of Eaton". The attribution to Goodall, and his dates of 1671 to 1689, come from the catalogue record of the EEBO-TCP transcription, not from the printed book; on those dates he died at about eighteen.

The volume carries a prose dedication to the Countess of Clarendon and a verse dedication to Mr. Roderick, Upper-Master of Eaton-School. Its contents are schoolboy and undergraduate-age verse: love poems and epigrams to a Hemiera and an Idera, verse letters to friends and to his brother, an elegy on Oldham, and versions of Anacreon, Bion, Theocritus, Catullus, Ovid, Seneca and Juvenal, with Greek epigrams in English. The spelling of the 1689 print is kept here.

Poems (69)

  1. To the Worthy Mr. Roderick, Upper-Master of Eaton-School
  2. A Translation out of Synesius
  3. Ode I: Love
  4. Ode II: The Letter-Carrier
  5. Ode III: Gold
  6. Ode IV: Grey Hairs
  7. Ode V: Drink
  8. Anacreon's Blessing
  9. Bion Idyl. 4
  10. A Greek Epigram to Hemiera. To Madam A— R—
  11. The Snow-Ball. A Translation. To Madam D— B—
  12. To Idera wearing a Mask. A Song To Madam M— R—
  13. Bion Idyl. 2
  14. A Paraphrase on the Twenty-third Idyl of Theocritus
  15. Chorus 1. Of Seneca's Agamemnon
  16. Parting with His Dear Brother, Mr. Ash Wyndham
  17. To Mr. G. L. an Ode
  18. The Spring. To Mr. Ben. Wrightson
  19. Learning
  20. To Mr. R. Smith of King's Colledge in Cambridge
  21. To Idera in Mourning, Going into Mourning Himself soon after
  22. A Paradox in Praise of Ambition
  23. To Idera. Age in a Looking-glass
  24. Solitude. To his dear Brother, Mr. Ash Wyndham
  25. To a young Lady that constantly slept at Church
  26. To Idera, Putting a Copy of Verses in at her Window at Midnight
  27. To Idera, Speechless
  28. Incurable. To Idera
  29. To the Ingenious Mr. Barker. Saul's Witch of Endor
  30. To Mrs. B. Wright, On her Incomparable Poetry
  31. A Fragment of Catullus. Advice to Hemiera
  32. The Paradox, To Idera
  33. To Idera, Dreaming she was Angry
  34. Ovid's Amorum Lib. 3. Eleg. 9. On the death of Tibullus. To Mr. William Lloyd
  35. To Idera, Having by some Mischance so hurt her self as to halt
  36. To Mr. Omnibon
  37. To Idera, Writing her Name in Snow, which melting to Water, froze, and soon after thaw'd
  38. A Propitiatory Sacrifice, To the Ghost of J— M— by way of Pastoral, in a Dialogue between Thyrsis and Corydon
  39. Oldham's Ghost. A Dream. To Mr. Ro. Townshend
  40. On The Death of the late Duke of Ormond
  41. To Mr. R. Nichols. On the Little Man that was show'd for a Sight all over England. In imitation of a Greek Epigram out of Lucilius
  42. To Mrs. Mary Nichols
  43. To Idera, The Apology for Silence
  44. The Dumb Discovery
  45. In praise of Wine mixt with Water. A Greek Epigram, Out of Meleager
  46. Parting with Mr. Tho. Bebington
  47. A Greek Epigram
  48. On John Pig, who was very famous for his great Nose
  49. Part of the 14th Satyr of Juvenal, Against Covetousness: With a long Preface taken out of the same Satyr
  50. An Epigram. To Mr. H. Northcote of Exeter-Colledge, Oxon
  51. An Epigram. In praise of John Pig's Diminutive Nose, in imitation of the Emperour Trajan's
  52. Another out of Ammianus. To Mr. T. Woolley
  53. To a young Lady reading the seventh Verse of the first Chapter of Proverbs
  54. To his Valentine Hemiera, Madam A. R
  55. To Idera. Who would not be seen to steal a Look from Duserastes, by turning her back
  56. To Hemiera
  57. To P. P. being to run a Race after Dinner
  58. An Epigram out of Alphaeus Mitylenaeus. To Mr. Humphry Lind
  59. Another. To Mr. Denham
  60. An Epitaph on old Oliver
  61. A Greek Epigram. A short Life and a sweet. To his dear Friend Mr. Edw. Taylour
  62. To Mr. Henry Palmer, going to Sea
  63. To Mr. Butler
  64. To his dear Friend Mr. Will. Percival. That Poetry is Witchcraft
  65. Antipater's Epitaph upon Homer
  66. To Mr. Nat. Smith
  67. To Mr. King
  68. To Mr. Hen. Fane
  69. An Epigram out of Plato

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