The Beau's Miscellany [Part II] [T80397] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 50
- Publication Date:
- 1731
- ESTC number:
- T80397
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW3312781141
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - BOD
- Full Title:
- THE | BEAU'S Miscellany. | BEING A | NEW and CURIOUS | COLLECTION | OF | Amorous TALES, diverting SONG, | and entertaining POEMS. | [rule] | By several HANDS. | [rule] | PART II. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]A. Moore[/i] near St. [i]Paul[/i]'s, and | Sold at the Booksellers and Pamphlet | Shops in [i]London[/i] and [i]Westminster.[/i] | Price One Shilling.
- Epigraph:
- Wit, like Beauty, triumphs o'er the Heart, | When more of Nature's seen and less of Art. | [i]Prior.[/i]
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- 1 shilling
- Pagination:
- 0
- Bibliographic details:
- Frontispiece. This is 'Part 2'. Suarez suggests there is 'no known copy' of Part 1. Title page in red and black.
- Comments:
- DATE: no date in imprint. ESTC suggests [1731?]
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATTER: Contents (2pp.)
- Publisher:
- Arthur Moore
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for A. Moore near St. Paul's, and Sold at the Booksellers and Pamphlet Shops in London and Westminster.'
- First Line:
- Come hither good people both aged and young
- Page No:
- pp.1-5
- Poem Title:
- The Yorkshire Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In good King Lewis's land
- Page No:
- pp.5-8
- Poem Title:
- The Dyer of Roan. To the Tune of Old Simon the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Phillis tis owned I am your slave
- Page No:
- pp.9-13
- Poem Title:
- Upon a Lady, who by the overturning of a Coach, had her Coats behind flung up, and what was under, shewn to the View of the Company.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Late as I on my bed reposing lay
- Page No:
- pp.13-16
- Poem Title:
- The Batchelor's Dream.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Too weak are laws and edicts vain
- Page No:
- pp.16-20
- Poem Title:
- The Cure for Cuckoldom. A Tale from Boccace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All in the land of Essex
- Page No:
- pp.21-24
- Poem Title:
- News from Colchester. Or, A Song on the Carnal Conversation, betwixt a Quaker and a Colt, at Horsly, near Colchester in Essex. To the Tune of, Tom of Bedlam.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas in the land of cyder
- Page No:
- pp.25-27
- Poem Title:
- John and Susan. To the Tune of, Noble Race was Shinkin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When on thy form I cast my ravished eye
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- The Impossibility; or, The Combat of the Senses.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If juice of man's bones have such sovereign power
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- On Dr. Goddard's Drops.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Baynard
- Attributed To:
- Edward Baynard
- First Line:
- Friend Will never think it to thy shame
- Page No:
- pp.30-31
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. -- of Lincoln's-Inn, passionately in Love with a Coffee-Woman's Daughter, in Imitation of Part of the 4th Ode of the 2d Book of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What cruel hand my sweetest rose
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- The Rose, an Ode. Written in the Stile and Manner of Anacreon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An amorous person Damon by the by
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On a Gentleman's Illness, occasioned by his Familiarity with a very handsome Woman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On a bank of flowers in a summer's day
- Page No:
- pp.35-37
- Poem Title:
- The Bashful Lover.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In spite of love at length I find
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- A Song, in the Praise of Claret.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sweet Nelly my heart's delight
- Page No:
- pp.39-41
- Poem Title:
- The Farmer's Son.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How blessed are beggar lasses
- Page No:
- pp.41-43
- Poem Title:
- The Happy Beggars. Sung in the Opera of the Beggar's Wedding. To the Tune, Talk no more of Whig and Tory.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To you fair ladies now in town
- Page No:
- pp.43-45
- Poem Title:
- An Invitation into the Country. To the Tune of, All ye Ladies now at Land.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Lewis strove as all agree
- Page No:
- pp.46-53
- Poem Title:
- On the Taking St. Maries. A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A certain presbyterian pair
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- The Presbyterian Wedding.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies Sarah Mary and Elizabeth Briggs
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- On one Humphrey Briggs, who had 3 Wives.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies ten in the hundred in the ground fast rammed
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- On an Old Usurer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies the Lord have mercy upon her
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on a Maid of Honour.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Venus naked from the sea arose
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- To a Young Lady, who appeared frequently Leaning out of her Window.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Aminta led me to a grove
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Aminta.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- May rats and mice
- Page No:
- pp.58-59
- Poem Title:
- The Tailor's Curse. Being made on a Constable who took up James Spiller.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe a coquet in her prime
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- The Coquet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Be kind my dear Chloe let's kiss and let's love
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Verses made at Crambo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fruition was the question in debate
- Page No:
- pp.61-62
- Poem Title:
- The Imperfect Injoyment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The buxom young widow has lost the first game
- Page No:
- pp.63-65
- Poem Title:
- A Game of Back-gammon, Play'd by My Lord and Lady. To the Tune of Jolly Roger Twankdillow of Ploughden-Hill.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah Chloris tis time to disarm your bright eyes
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- A Song to Chloris from the Blind Archer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst happy I triumphant stood
- Page No:
- pp.66-69
- Poem Title:
- On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One day the amorous Lysander
- Page No:
- pp.70-75
- Poem Title:
- The Insensible.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dolly's beauty and art
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- On Dolly Chamberlain, A Semstress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In a dark silent shady grove
- Page No:
- pp.76-77
- Poem Title:
- Et Caetera, A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Sylvia came into the room t'other day
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- A Lover's Anger.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A going to Tottenham market
- Page No:
- pp.78-80
- Poem Title:
- On Tottenham Market. A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies puried under these stones
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- On a Welchman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this stone
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- On Mrs. Creswell.
- Attribution:
- L--d Rochester
- Attributed To:
- John Wilmot
- First Line:
- Humbly sheweth | That I went to warm my self in Lady Betty's chamber because I was cold
- Page No:
- pp.81-86
- Poem Title:
- To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, who must Starve, and die a Maid if it Miscarries.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the nymphs that trod the flowery green
- Page No:
- pp.86-88
- Poem Title:
- On Mira.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Musing one day on this and that
- Page No:
- pp.88-89
- Poem Title:
- The Best in Christendom. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What's that in which good housewives take delight
- Page No:
- p.90
- Poem Title:
- A New Riddle for the Ladies.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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