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Includes political ballads and songs, some with tunes indicated by title. ; Pirated from "Poems on affairs of state . written by the greatest wits of the age" (4 v., 1697-1707) and repudiated as "spurious" in v. 4 of the latter, which lists more than 100 items omitted from this surreptitious volume and taunts its publishers for "the mean and low additions" after p. 452.--Cf. Cambridge bibliography of English literature, v. 2, p. 187, and Lowndes' Bibliographer's manual, p. 1895. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Title within double line border. ; Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, B-Q⁸ (Q₈ blank? wanting) ; Second edition, second issue. ; Published earlier under various titles: 1st ed., 1658, "The cabinet-council: containing the chief arts of empire and mysteries of state; discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms"; 1661, "Aphorisms of state", 1692, "The arts of empire and mysteries of state discabineted". cf. Brushfield, T.N. A bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh, knt. Exeter, 1908, p. 129-131. ; Cf. Pforzheimer, C.H. . English literature, 1475-1700. New York, 1940. v.3, p. 843-844. ; Caption title: The arts of empire and mysteries of state. ; Mode of access: Internet.