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'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

I rise at eleven I dine about two

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pp.18-19

Poem Title:

The Debauchee.

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Clarendon had law and sense

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pp.19-20

Poem Title:

The Young Statesman. A Satire.

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Have you not in a chimney seen

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p.19

Poem Title:

The Maidenhead.

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Tis the Arabian bird alone

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p.20

Poem Title:

The Encouragement.

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First Line:

Chaste pious prudent Charles the second

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pp.21-25

Poem Title:

The Restoration: Or, The History of Insipids. A Lampoon.

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First Line:

She was so exquisite a whore

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p.25

Poem Title:

Written under Nelly's Picture.

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First Line:

Twas when the sable mantle of the night

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pp.25-26

Poem Title:

A Dream.

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First Line:

O that I now could by some chymic art

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p.26

Poem Title:

The Wish.

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First Line:

Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms

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p.26

Poem Title:

Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk, after having heard him sing Psalms.

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A knight delights in hardy deeds of arms

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p.27

Poem Title:

Acrostick.

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Here lies our sovereign lord the king

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p.27

Poem Title:

The King's Epitaph.

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In all humanity we crave

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p.27

Poem Title:

The Commons Petition to King Charles II.

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If Rome can pardon sins as Romans hold

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p.28

Poem Title:

On Rome's Pardons.

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First Line:

As on his death bed gasping Strephon lay

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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

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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.

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Naked she lay clasped in my longing arms

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pp.29-31

Poem Title:

The Disappointment.

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While in the mall my Celia shone

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pp.31-32

Poem Title:

The Gnat.

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First Line:

Tell me Dorinda why so gay

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pp.32-33

Poem Title:

On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II. Written in the Year 1680.

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First Line:

Proud with the spoils of royal cully

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p.33

Poem Title:

On the Same.

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Fair Susan did her wifehode well maintayne

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p.33

Poem Title:

Susannah and the Two Elders.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Dolly's beauty and art

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p.34

Poem Title:

On Dolly Chamberlain, a Sempstress in the New Exchange.

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First Line:

When fair Susannah in a cool retreat

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p.34

Poem Title:

The same attempted in a Modern Stile.

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By Mr. Cobb.

Attributed To:

Samuel Cobb

First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

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pp.34-39

Poem Title:

Baucis and Philemon.

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By Jonathan Swift, D. D.

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Jonathan Swift

First Line:

I love as well as others do

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p.39

Poem Title:

The Mock Song.

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First Line:

For standing -- we kind nature thank

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pp.40-41

Poem Title:

An Interlude. Actus I. Scena I. The Scene, A Bed-Chamber. Enter Tarsander and Swivanthe.

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First Line:

Parson these things in thy possessing

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pp.41-42

Poem Title:

The Happy Life of a Country Parson.

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By Dr. Swift.

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Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Clasped in the arms of her I love

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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

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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

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p.43

Poem Title:

The Unintelligible.

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First Line:

Here hark ye old friend what wilt pass then without

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p.44

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Country Inn-Keeper.

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First Line:

When fancies odd plagued Menelaus's head

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p.44

Poem Title:

The Royal Buck.

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When Orpheus fiddled that the brutes advanced

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p.44

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On a bad Dancer to bad Musick.

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Ten months after Florimel happened to wed

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p.45

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[no title]

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When Loveless married lady Jenny

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p.45

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[no title]

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When Phyllis confessed her the father was rash

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p.45

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[no title]

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Blessed be the princes who have fought

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p.46

Poem Title:

[no title]

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How old may Phyllis be you ask

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p.46

Poem Title:

Phyllis's Age.

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First Line:

I am unable yonder beggar cries

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p.46

Poem Title:

A Lame Beggar

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First Line:

Of two reliefs to cure a lovesick mind

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p.46

Poem Title:

The best Cure for Love.

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Here lies my poor wife without bed or blanket

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p.47

Poem Title:

On his Wife.

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My love and I for kisses played

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p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

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There lies entombed within this vault so dark

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p.47

Poem Title:

On a Parish Clerk at Weston in Cheshire.

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When Gammar Gurton first I knew

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p.47

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Who killed Kildare who durst Kildare to kill

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p.47

Poem Title:

On the Earl of Kildare.

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Here lieth old Cromwell

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p.48

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[no title]

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Light upon him earth though he

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p.48

Poem Title:

On Sir John Vanbrugh, the Architect.

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Here lies the corpse of William Prynne

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pp.48-49

Poem Title:

[no title]

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S. Butler.

Attributed To:

Samuel Butler

First Line:

Interred beneath this marble stone

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pp.49-50

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Prior.

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Matthew Prior

First Line:

Here lies one More and no more than he

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p.51

Poem Title:

St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharfe, London.

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First Line:

My sledge and hammer lie reclined

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p.51

Poem Title:

Lincoln Church. In Memory of David Fletcher, Smith to this Church, who died Feb. 14, 1744. Aged 48 Years.

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First Line:

Here lies old Hobson death hath broke his girt

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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.

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John Milton

First Line:

Here lies father and mother and sister and I

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p.52

Poem Title:

Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.

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First Line:

Stop passenger until my life you've read

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pp.52-53

Poem Title:

On Margaret Scott.

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Here snug in grave my wife doth lie

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p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Stay bachelor if you have wit

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p.53

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Aaron Hill.

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First Line:

The King of Great Britain was reckoned before

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p.53

Poem Title:

On the late King's Statue on teh Top of Bloomsbury Spire.

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First Line:

Jack eating rotten cheese did say

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p.54

Poem Title:

Jack and Sampson compared.

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Reader beneath this turf I lie

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p.54

Poem Title:

The Author's Epitaph. Made at the Rose Spunging-house.

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A little world I say again

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pp.55-56

Poem Title:

The Lady's Answer.

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Men are the world in small you say

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p.55

Poem Title:

The Female Microcosm. To a Lady who said, Man was a little World.

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Here resteth John amidst other clay

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p.56

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Miser married to a Coquet.

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Our fathers took oaths as of old they took wives

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p.56

Poem Title:

On taking Oaths.

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First Line:

Good neighbour how d'ye do and do again

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

The Gossips.

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First Line:

When Chloe's picture was to Chloe shown

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p.57

Poem Title:

Chloe's Picture.

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First Line:

Giles Jolt as sleeping in his cart he lay

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p.58

Poem Title:

Giles Jolt and his Cart.

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One night plump Sue and Coacaman Ned

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p.58

Poem Title:

Women the best Politicians.

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Lavinia is polite but not profane

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pp.59-60

Poem Title:

The Pious Harlot.

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Here must I stand condemned by the law

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p.60

Poem Title:

Verses spoken extempore by a Girl doing Penance for defaming her Mistress.

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