The diverting muse [ESTC P6354, T200954] [Part I]
- DMI number:
- 152
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 6
- ESTC number:
- P6354/T200954
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW614079230
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding E 254 (3)
- Full Title:
- Diverting MUSE, | OR, THE | [i]Universal Medly.[/i] | Written by a Society of Merry Gentlemen, for | the Entertainment of the Town. | [rule] | The First PART. | [rule] | Consisting of | I. The Wine-bibber's Wish. | II. Adviceto an Old Lady, who has bury'd Six | Husbands, and set up for the Seventh. | III. A Comical Dialogue between a Botcher and his | Wife, after his return from the Ale-house. | IV. The first mounting of a young Excise-man for | the Country, or good Advice to Broken Shop-| keepers. | V. The Gossip's Visit, or an Ally-Comedy, call'd, | Female Tittle-tattle. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed, And Sold by [i]B. Bragge[/i], at the [i]Raven[/i] in | [i]Pater-noster-row[/i], 1707.
- Epigraph:
- n/a
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of comic verse
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- [4 d]
- Pagination:
- [2], 3-38, [2].
- Bibliographic details:
- Miscellany has been closely cropped. 'The' is missing from title; some of the page numbers have been wholly or partially cropped. BOD Harding E 254 (3) is bound together with the Fifth and Sixth Parts of this miscellany. MS annotation next to date on title page: '1 July'. In top left hand corner, '4. d'. BOD Harding E 254 (3) was apparently owned by Narcissus Luttrell (see note on first leaf of volume). MS additions filling in blanks on p. 18.
- Comments:
- These poems reprinted as part of Edward Ward's Writings, 1709.
- Other matter:
- Request for any 'song, poem, epigram, epitaph, elegy, epithalamium, satyr &c. provided that the subject be no ways offensive to the state, or tending to the scandal of any particular person' to be sent for inclusion in future parts of this monthly miscellany, to 'Mr. George Dagastaff, to be left at Mr Hogarth's coffee-house in St. John's Gate'.
- References:
- Case 241 (Case describes only this first part and not any of the following five). There appear to be 2 ESTC numbers for this miscellany, P6354 and T200954 (however, entering the second of these takes you to the record headed P6354).
- Title:
- The diverting muse [ESTC P6354, T200954] [Part II]
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- ESTC No:
- P6354 [T200954]
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The diverting muse [ESTC P6354, T200954] [Part III]
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- ESTC No:
- P6354 [T200954]
- Volume:
- 3 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The diverting muse [ESTC P6354, T200954] [Part IV]
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- ESTC No:
- P6354 [T200954]
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The diverting muse [ESTC P6354, T200954] [Part V]
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- ESTC No:
- P6354 [T200954]
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The diverting muse [ESTC P6354, T200954] [Part VI]
- Publication Date:
- 1707
- ESTC No:
- P6354 [T200954]
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Editor:
- Edward Ward
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Identified as editor in ESTC.
- Editor:
- George Dagastaff
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Identified in the end matter as the possible compiler of the collection, P6354 [Part I] p. [39].
- Sold by:
- Benjamin Bragg
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Printed, And Sold by B. Bragge, at the Raven in Pater-noster-row.'
- First Line:
- O give me kind Bacchus thou god of the vine
- Page No:
- pp.3-6
- Poem Title:
- The wine bibber's wish
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Forbear old beldam tis I vow a crime
- Page No:
- pp.6-9
- Poem Title:
- Advice to an old lady who has bury'd six husbands and sets up for the seventh
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I find you old sot that your rising so soon
- Page No:
- pp.10-15
- Poem Title:
- A dialogue between a botcher and his wife, after his return from the ale-house
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whoever desires to be a fawning slave
- Page No:
- pp.16-19
- Poem Title:
- The mounting of a young excise-man for the country, or good advice to broken shopkeepers
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Neighbour good morrow how d'ye do
- Page No:
- pp.19-38
- Poem Title:
- The gossip's visit: or, an alley comedy, call'd, Female Title Tattle
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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