The Doctor's Miscellany [ESTC N31630]
- DMI number:
- 1490
- Publication Date:
- 1731
- ESTC number:
- N31630
- Shelfmark:
- Folger PR3291.D6 Cage
- Full Title:
- THE | DOCTOR's | MISCELLANY; | WITH A | Quack-Observatory PREFACE: | OR, A | Curious COLLECTION of Wondrous | CURES, Amorous POEMS, SONNETS, | and TRANSLATIONS. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | LONDON: | Printed for W. TROTT, in [i]Russel-Court[/i], near | [i]Drury-Lane[/i]; and Sold by the Booksellers of | [i]London[/i] and [i]Westminster[/i]. M.DCC.XXXI. | (Price One Shilling.)
- Epigraph:
- [i]Some calculate the hidden Fates,[/i] [i]Of Monkeys, Puppy-Dogs, and Cats,[/i] [i]Some running[/i] Nags, [i]and fighting Cocks,[/i] [i]Some Love, Trade, Law-Suits, and the[/i] Pox: [i]Some take a measure of the Lives[/i] [i]Of Fathers, Mothers, Husbands, Wives;[/i] [i]Make Opposition Trine and Quartile,[/i] [i]Tell who is[/i] Barren, [i]and who[/i] Fertile. Hud.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection including prose
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Price:
- Price One Shilling.
- Bibliographic details:
- Folger copy has "a most scarce volume" written on inside of cover.
- Comments:
- Plate facing title page: engraving with lines from Hudibras. Engraving p. 65 Miscellany is dominated by prose (pp. [1]-66) with verse interspersed throughout.
- Other matter:
- Dedication to "James L--fl--y Esq" iii-vi
- Title:
- The Quack's Miscellany in Prose and Verse [N21916] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1732
- ESTC No:
- N21916
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- W Trott
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- As timorous sailors when from sea they spy
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- To the most Excellent of her Sex, the lovely DULCINEA, on her Recovery from the Small-Pox.
- Attribution:
- 'a Bookseller's Son near Temple-Bar'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tossed between hope and fear I daily mourn
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [No title]
- Attribution:
- 'a Bookseller's Son near Temple-Bar'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since heaven ordained that thou shouldst be a bride
- Page No:
- pp.16-18
- Poem Title:
- An EPITHALAMIUM on the Nuptials of Mrs. A___Z.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great architect immortalize thy name
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. J. Bird, on the Monuments erected to the Memories of Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bart. and William Congreve Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- High stomached Hector dines upon one stake
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- A Burlesque upon a Company of Stroling-Players.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come lovely Phillis sit thee down
- Page No:
- pp.26-28
- Poem Title:
- A Pastoral Dialogue.
- Attribution:
- 'A Gentleman Student of the University of Oxford'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O Billy thou art a beau not only one
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Mart. Lib. 3. Epig. 54.
- Attribution:
- 'A Gentleman Student of the University of Oxford'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Alas my Lydia do you think
- Page No:
- pp.30-31
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Lib. I. Ode 13.
- Attribution:
- 'A Gentleman Student of the University of Oxford'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wedlock oh cursed uncomfortable state
- Page No:
- pp.32-46
- Poem Title:
- A Cure for Cuckoldom; or, the Miseries of Matrimony.
- Attribution:
- 'wrote by a friend of the Warrior's'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An hog an head nay a brazen head too
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- A Key to the Plate affixed to the Royal Remarks, &c.
- Attribution:
- A. B. Secretary to Ouka, King of the Cherokee.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Report did amuse us as if that a duck
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Verses, Sacred to the Memory of our present POET-LAUREAT.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whilst you're cutting and carving
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- To Doctor MERCURIUS.
- Attribution:
- The Barber-Surgeon
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since Georgee in trimming all trimmers excel
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- To the intended AUTHOR of the BARBER-SURGEON's MISCELLANY.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When winter with her silver hue
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- The Forsaken MAID.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fairest of thy sex and best
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- To DULCINEA.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The pains which absence does create
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- An Invitation to Happiness.
- Attribution:
- By the same hand. [preceding poem unattributed]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My son the precepts of thy father hear
- Page No:
- pp.57-59
- Poem Title:
- Proverbs, Chap. V.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of body weak and mind decaying
- Page No:
- pp.61-64
- Poem Title:
- The Will of a VIRTUOSO
- Attribution:
- Jos. Bawble.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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