The book of fun or the quintessence of wit and mirth [T191471] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 920
- Publication Date:
- 1759
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T191471
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW117223577
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - bod
- Full Title:
- THE | BOOK of FUN; | OR, THE | QUNTESSENCE | OF | WIT and MIRTH. | CONTAINING | More FROLICKSOME STUFF, than any | other BOOK of the SIZE and PRICE. | COLLECTED | From all the JOLLIEST AUTHORS, and | from several ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. | [ornament] | LONDON: | Printed for any Body that please to buy it. | M DCC LIX.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of comic verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Comments:
- Contents: prose pp. 3-18, 59. Title: title page reads 'Quntessence'; running head reads 'Quintessence'.
- First Line:
- I rise at eleven I dine about two
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- The Debauchee.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Clarendon had law and sense
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- The Young Statesman. A Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Have you not in a chimney seen
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- The Maidenhead.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis the Arabian bird alone
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- The Encouragement.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chaste pious prudent Charles the second
- Page No:
- pp.21-25
- Poem Title:
- The Restoration: Or, The History of Insipids. A Lampoon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- She was so exquisite a whore
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- Written under Nelly's Picture.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas when the sable mantle of the night
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- A Dream.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O that I now could by some chymic art
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- The Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk, after having heard him sing Psalms.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A knight delights in hardy deeds of arms
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- Acrostick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies our sovereign lord the king
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- The King's Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In all humanity we crave
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- The Commons Petition to King Charles II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If Rome can pardon sins as Romans hold
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- On Rome's Pardons.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral on the Death of the Earl of Rochester.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Flatman.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Flatman
- First Line:
- By heavens 'twas bravely done
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Spoken Extempore, upon receiving a Fall at Whitehall-Gate, by attempting to kiss the Dutchess of Cleveland as she was stepping out of her Chariot.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Naked she lay clasped in my longing arms
- Page No:
- pp.29-31
- Poem Title:
- The Disappointment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While in the mall my Celia shone
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- The Gnat.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tell me Dorinda why so gay
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Proud with the spoils of royal cully
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- On the Same.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fair Susan did her wifehode well maintayne
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- Susannah and the Two Elders.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Dolly's beauty and art
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- On Dolly Chamberlain, a Sempstress in the New Exchange.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When fair Susannah in a cool retreat
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- The same attempted in a Modern Stile.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Cobb.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Cobb
- First Line:
- In ancient times as story tells
- Page No:
- pp.34-39
- Poem Title:
- Baucis and Philemon.
- Attribution:
- By Jonathan Swift, D. D.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- I love as well as others do
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- The Mock Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For standing -- we kind nature thank
- Page No:
- pp.40-41
- Poem Title:
- An Interlude. Actus I. Scena I. The Scene, A Bed-Chamber. Enter Tarsander and Swivanthe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Parson these things in thy possessing
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- The Happy Life of a Country Parson.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Swift.
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Clasped in the arms of her I love
- Page No:
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- The Enjoyment.
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. Otway].
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- I did but look and love a while
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- The Inchantment.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Otway.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Otway
- First Line:
- Tis now six months I've wore your chain
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- The Unintelligible.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here hark ye old friend what wilt pass then without
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on a Country Inn-Keeper.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When fancies odd plagued Menelaus's head
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- The Royal Buck.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Orpheus fiddled that the brutes advanced
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- On a bad Dancer to bad Musick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ten months after Florimel happened to wed
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Loveless married lady Jenny
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Phyllis confessed her the father was rash
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blessed be the princes who have fought
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How old may Phyllis be you ask
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- Phyllis's Age.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I am unable yonder beggar cries
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- A Lame Beggar
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of two reliefs to cure a lovesick mind
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- The best Cure for Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies my poor wife without bed or blanket
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- On his Wife.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My love and I for kisses played
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There lies entombed within this vault so dark
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- On a Parish Clerk at Weston in Cheshire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Gammar Gurton first I knew
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who killed Kildare who durst Kildare to kill
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- On the Earl of Kildare.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lieth old Cromwell
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Light upon him earth though he
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- On Sir John Vanbrugh, the Architect.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies the corpse of William Prynne
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- S. Butler.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
- First Line:
- Interred beneath this marble stone
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Prior.
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- First Line:
- Here lies one More and no more than he
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharfe, London.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My sledge and hammer lie reclined
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- Lincoln Church. In Memory of David Fletcher, Smith to this Church, who died Feb. 14, 1744. Aged 48 Years.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies old Hobson death hath broke his girt
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- On the Cambridge Carrier, who sickened in the Time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague.
- Attribution:
- John Milton.
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- First Line:
- Here lies father and mother and sister and I
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stop passenger until my life you've read
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- On Margaret Scott.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here snug in grave my wife doth lie
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Stay bachelor if you have wit
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Aaron Hill.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The King of Great Britain was reckoned before
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- On the late King's Statue on teh Top of Bloomsbury Spire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Jack eating rotten cheese did say
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Jack and Sampson compared.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader beneath this turf I lie
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- The Author's Epitaph. Made at the Rose Spunging-house.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A little world I say again
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- The Lady's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Men are the world in small you say
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- The Female Microcosm. To a Lady who said, Man was a little World.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here resteth John amidst other clay
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- Epitaph on a Miser married to a Coquet.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Our fathers took oaths as of old they took wives
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- On taking Oaths.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Good neighbour how d'ye do and do again
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- The Gossips.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Chloe's picture was to Chloe shown
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Chloe's Picture.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Giles Jolt as sleeping in his cart he lay
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- Giles Jolt and his Cart.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One night plump Sue and Coacaman Ned
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- Women the best Politicians.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lavinia is polite but not profane
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- The Pious Harlot.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here must I stand condemned by the law
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Verses spoken extempore by a Girl doing Penance for defaming her Mistress.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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