The comic muse [T184360] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1417

Publication Date:

1772

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T184360

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116478385

Shelfmark:

ECCO

Full Title:

THE | COMIC MUSE, | A | CHOICE COLLECTION | OF | HUMOROUS TALES, WITTY EPIGRAMS, | EPITAPHS, &c. | Collected from the writings of the Genuine | SONS of WITT and HUMOUR. | [double rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | PRINTED in the Year, MDCCLXXII. |

Epigraph:

[i]From Grave to Jovial you must change with Art.[/i]

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents pp. iii-v, To the Reader p.vi

Content/Publication

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To pass the dull evening in pleasure away

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n. p.

Poem Title:

To The Reader.

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Of arms of siege of bloody fight

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pp.1-10

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The Peer and the Poet. A Tale.

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Long time had Strephon country swain

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pp.10-13

Poem Title:

The Disappointment

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Richard of all mankind the most complete

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pp.13-15

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Mary the Cook to Dick the Farmer. An Epistle.

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Mary Derry

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The poker lost poor Susan stormed

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pp.15-16

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Where's the Poker? A Tale.

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A bag wig of a jaunty air

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pp.16-18

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The Bag-Wig and the Tobacco Pipe.

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Robin who to the plough was bred

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pp.18-20

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Robin's Spectacles. A Tale.

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At four on Monday morn tis said

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pp.20-22

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A Modern Morning

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Miss Molly a famed toast was fair and young

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pp.22-26

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The Medicine: a Tale

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By Dean Swift

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Jonathan Swift

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Dear Tom | This comes to let you know

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pp.27-35

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The Spinning Wheel: an Epistolary Tale.

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As Collin once the fair Dorinda kissed

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p.35

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The Salute.

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Tom Ramble a rake of true catholic hope

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pp.35-38

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The Rake and Friar: a Tale.

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Ye maids whom nature meant for mother

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pp.38-40

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A Batchelor's Address, or Proposal to the Maidens.

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With sobbing voice upon his death bed sick

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p.41

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An Epigram on two spiteful Brothers

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One Sunday at night as a country divine

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pp.42-43

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The Parson

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To purge the anxious mind from spleen

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pp.43-44

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Snuff.

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A farmer been to pay his rent

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pp.44-50

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The Frightened Farmer: a Tale.

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Since youth and age

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pp.50-53

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Whimsical Wealthy's Will

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Once on a time if fame say true

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pp.53-56

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Modern Justice; Or, the Case Altered, a Tale.

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A cannon ball one bloody day

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p.56

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The Mistake.

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It blew an hard storm and in utmost confusion

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p.57

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An Epigram

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Rejoice all ye bucks epicurean blades

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pp.57-59

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On Doctor Cadogan's Treatise on Chronic Diseases

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By a Company of Cits

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John ran so long and ran so fast

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p.59

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On a Gentleman who lost his fortune on horse racing.

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Good Mr Gill I can tale nothing ill

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pp.61-62

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The Gentleman, not hearing from the Barber, wrote as follows:

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Good Mr Gill I doubt not your skill

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pp.61

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Sent by a Country Clergyman to his Peruke-Maker at Grantham, Lincolnshire, with his daughters hair.

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Hold let me look ever I adventure

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pp.62-64

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The Poet sallying from his Lodgings to the Park

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Whoever with curious eye has ranged

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pp.65-67

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The Origin of Beaux

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Once a solicitor of high renown

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pp.66-68

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Reynard out-witted: or, the Lawyer caught in his own Trap.

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In Sussex Road as you go down

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pp.68-70

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The Fable of the Dirty Way

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Love by hope is still sustained

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pp.71-73

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The Relaxation of War, Or The Hero's Philosophy, A Poem.

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Written By His Majesty The King Of Prussia, During His Residence At Breslaw.

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King of Prussia Frederick II

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Clarinda proudly trips it over the pier

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pp.73-78

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The Coquette

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A cook the lord knows where he lived

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pp.78-80

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The Cook and his Customer. A Canterbury Tale.

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T. S.

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As farmers seeds in plenty sow

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pp.80-84

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The Gentleman and the Rat.

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Whoever for pleasure plans a scheme

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pp.84-86

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The Milk Maid

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A spruce divine who of the gown

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pp.86-88

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A Tale.

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In days dear friend when mother time

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pp.88-94

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An Epistle, Written in the Country to a Friend in the Town.

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In the days of our sires

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pp.94-97

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The Bath Ghost

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For husbands lost poor women cry

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pp.97-100

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The Young Widow

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Do cuckolds wear horns says Thomas to Ned

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p.100

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Epigram

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Every poet it is said

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p.100

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Epigram

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Will asked his wife consent to go

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p.101

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Epigram

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Sylvia in days of yore had been

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pp.101-104

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The Crooked Stick. A Tale.

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By Mr Vicarman

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Mr. Vicarman

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As Sir Toby reeled home with his skin full of wine

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pp.104-105

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Epigram

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Since as the serious preach and the prudent say

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p.104

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Epigram

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Here lies beneath this verdant hill

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pp.105-106

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Epitaph on a Cat Bird-Catcher

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A truce to all wrangling a truce to ill nature

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pp.107-109

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A Card Party

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Two men equipped were on their way

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pp.109-110

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The Thief and the Travellers

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Twas on a lofty vase's side

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pp.111-112

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The Cat drowned in a Tub.

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Like many more tis my delight

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pp.112-116

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The Quarrel.

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Friendly

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To think well to say well

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p.116

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A whimsical Epigram, by an old Gentleman of 83.

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R. P.

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On different coast the prayers we find

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pp.117-118

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Prayers and Supplications.

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How each fond parent still pursues

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pp.118-120

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The Chimney-Sweeper.

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Sir | I answer you in verse you see

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pp.121-122

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The Clergyman's Choice of a Wife. Introduction, by way of Apology for the Poetica Licentia.

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Sir | You tell me of a female pair

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pp.122-127

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The Foreign Ecclesiatic's Choice of an English Wife, delineated, in the following Queries.

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Madam | Ten thousand things I want yet none

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pp.128-132

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The Querist's Reply to Miss's Answer.

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Pray who's this man so vastly nice

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p.128

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Miss's Answer to the Queries above.

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Let me see bread and beer tripe and dressing hey day

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p.133

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A Taylor, on a Tavern Bill.

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A lawyer physician and reverend divine

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pp.134-138

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The Disappointed Travellers of Frome: or the three Professions in Tribulation.

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In your lectures gainst drunkenness doctor how is it

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p.139

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Epigram. On a Gentleman who had a Drunken Wife.

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Who follow nature please and my own bride

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p.139

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Epigram.

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A Yorkshire man and ostler still

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p.140

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Epigram

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So little given at chapel's door

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p.140

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Epigram

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I ever shall hold that man untrue

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pp.141-143

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A Tale

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P.

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Madam | Two batchelors meeting together today

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pp.144-145

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A Card Compliment to a young Lady.

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Three weeks are expired

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pp.145-148

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The Supplicating Soldier to his compassionate Commanding Officer. Written Extempore. Cash being very low, and at an Alehouse.

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M. R.

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Ne gay attire ne marble hall

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pp.148-149

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Father Francis's Prayer to St. Agnes. In Imitation of Chaucer.

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While others idle tales relate

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p[p.149-158

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A Match for the Devil.

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How uneasy is his life

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pp.158-160

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On the Married State.

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I love you for your squinting eyes

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pp.161-162

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady.

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Doctors by travel are improved

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pp.162-163

Poem Title:

Doctor Sea's Harangue.

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When now mature in classic knowledge

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pp.163-167

Poem Title:

The Progress of Discontent.

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Cries Celia to a reverend dean

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p.167

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A Lady to the Rev. Dean Swift.

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By your honour's command

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p.168

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A Sailor on board one of his Majesty's ships of War, being sentenc'd to the Cat-'o-nine-Tails, when he was ty'd ready to be whip, Spoke the following Lines to his Commander, 1747.

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A Sailor.

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Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair

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pp.169-172

Poem Title:

The Modern Fine Lady.

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Corinna pride of Drury Lane

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pp.173-175

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A Beautiful young Nymph going to Bed. Written for the honour of the Fair Sex.

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All folks who pretend to religion and grace

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p.176

Poem Title:

The Place of the Damned

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As clever Tom Clinch while the rabble was bawling

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pp.177-178

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Clever Tom Clinch going to be Hang'd.

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