The foundling hospital for wit [vol. IV] [T64452]

DMI number:

747

Publication Date:

1747

Volume Number:

4 of 4

ESTC number:

T64452

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116438265

Shelfmark:

BOD Radcl. e.240 (1)

Full Title:

THE | Foundling Hospital | FOR | WIT. | Intended for the | Reception and Preservation of such Brats of WIT and | HUMOUR whose Parents chuse to Drop them. | [rule] | NUMBER IV. to be Continued Occasionally. | [rule] | CONTAINING, | [2 columns] [column 1]1. Ode to [i]H--y F-x[/i], on the | Marriage of the Duchess of | [i]M----r[/i]. | 2. Ode to the Author of the [/i]Conquer'd Dutchess[/i]. | 3. Rural Reflections of a [i]Welch[/i] | Poet. | 4. [i]W--d--m[/i] and [i]P--tn--y[/i]; or | the Vision at [i]Bath[/i]. | 5. Tar-Water: A Ballad. | 6. The [i]Highlanders[/i] Flight.[/column 1] [column 2]7. The Fire-Side. | 8. Ode to [i]Steph. Poyntz[/i], Esq; | 9. Epilogue to [i]Tamerlane[/i]. | 10. Ode to Sir [i]C. H. W.[/i]. | 11. [i]Austria[/i]'s Deliverance. | 12. The [i]Sweet William[/i]. | 13. The Appeal of [i]Morgan[/i]'s | Ghost. | 14. Mons. [i]D'Argenson[/i]'s Let- | ter, and the Burlesque.[/column 2] | [i]With many Curious Pieces never before printed, and | a General Table of Contents to the Whole. | [rule] | By[/i] TIMOTHY SILENCE, [i]Esq[/i]; | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for W. WEBB, near St. [i]Paul[/i]'s. 1747. | [Price One Shilling.] | Where may be had Number I, II, and III, containing all the Satires, | Odes, Ballads and Epigrams, by the Prime WITS of this Age, since | the Change of the late Earl of O----d's Administration.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Topical miscellany and Political miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Price:

1 s.

Pagination:

[2], [1]-62

Bibliographic details:

Octavo in fours. The Foundling Hospital for Wit is often bound into collected editions, each made up of different issues of each of the six volumes. It is unlikely they were ever sold like this - the issues are advertised separately in the periodical press of the time. For examples of such collected volumes, see Bodleian shelfmarks Douce W 170; (Vet.) 2808 e.25; Johnson e.212.

Comments:

Miscellany Contents: Prose pp.37-46

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Contents (1p.)

References:

Case 440 (4) (a)

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First Line:

Clio behold this charming day

Page No:

pp.[1]-3

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Honourable H----y F----x, on the Marriage of the Du------s of M----r to H--s--y, Esq;

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First Line:

What clamour's here about a dame

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pp.3-5

Poem Title:

An Ode address'd to the Author of the Conquered Duchess. In Answer to that Celebrated Performance.

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First Line:

Stop stop my steed hail Cambria hail

Page No:

pp.5-8

Poem Title:

The Rural Reflections of a Welch Poet.

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a Welch Poet.

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First Line:

B---- vexed with court the country sought

Page No:

pp.8-12

Poem Title:

W--ndh--m and P--lt--y: or the Vision at Bath. An Imitation of that excellent old Song, William and Margaret.

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First Line:

Since good master Prior

Page No:

pp.12-14

Poem Title:

Tar-Water, a Ballad. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Philip Earl of Chesterfield.

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First Line:

When an ample relief

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pp.14-16

Poem Title:

The Highlanders Flight. A New Grubstreet Ballad.

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First Line:

Thrice happy who free from ambition and pride

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pp.17-18

Poem Title:

The Fire-Side; a Pastoral Soliloquy: On the E---- of G------ taking the S--ls.

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First Line:

Whilst William's deeds and William's praise

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pp.19-21

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, Esq; &c. &c. &c.

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First Line:

Britons once more in annual joy we meet

Page No:

pp.21-23

Poem Title:

Epilogue to Tamerlane, on the Suppression of the Rebellion. Spoken by Mrs. Pritchard, in the Character of the Comic Muse, Nov. 4. 1746.

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First Line:

Dear merry knight whose sportive vein

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

An Ode to Sir C---- H---- W----s.

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First Line:

An ancient sage in rules of wisdom versed

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pp.25-26

Poem Title:

Verses written at Bath. Inscrib'd to A---- H----, Esq;

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First Line:

Beneath a myrtle shade

Page No:

pp.26-27

Poem Title:

A Dream.

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First Line:

Whoever you are who with such warmth upbraid

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p.26

Poem Title:

A---- H----, Esq; his Answer written by Himself.

Attribution:

A---- H----, Esq;

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First Line:

Whether beneath some spreading poplar laid

Page No:

pp.28-32

Poem Title:

Austria's Deliverance. To the Author's Friend in the Country.

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First Line:

Why loosely flow those tresses of despair

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pp.32-35

Poem Title:

Stella's Death. A Pastoral Essay, writ in the Year 1744. To a Lady.

Attribution:

R.

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First Line:

The pride of France is lily white

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pp.35-36

Poem Title:

The Sweet William.

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First Line:

You a magistrate chief his wife tauntingly said

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p.46

Poem Title:

On a certain Methodist-Teacher being caught in Bed with his Maid.

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First Line:

Tis said that earth fire air and water

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

P------m Defended.

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First Line:

Jack reckons up the A-----ls we have

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p.48

Poem Title:

A Tarpaulin-Opinion upon some new Promotions.

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First Line:

Tully and Colley Cicero and Cibber

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p.48

Poem Title:

An Epigram on the Life and Character of Cicero, from Dr. Middleton, by C---- C----, Esq; Servant to His Majesty.

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First Line:

The prince's natal day I soar to sing

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p.49

Poem Title:

A Specimen of a Birthday-Ode.

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First Line:

Britons by all good signs it does appear

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p.50

Poem Title:

One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Seven.

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First Line:

Pass over this grave without concern

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pp.50-51

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a Vice-A----l lately dead of the Gout.

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First Line:

Come all ye men of pl--e or p--y

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p.51

Poem Title:

Stanzas of Consolation, written in the Sternholdian or C-bb--n Stile; to be said or sung by all whom it may concern.

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First Line:

Kilmarnock all ice Balmerino all fire

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p.52

Poem Title:

An Epigram. On the very different Behaviour of the Earl of Kilmarnock, and Lord Balmerino, and the Accounts of them at their Execution.

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First Line:

So like in manners and in lives

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p.52

Poem Title:

Ex Martiale. Epigram. I. Applyed to G. and E. C----r.

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First Line:

Thanks for this miracle for it is no less

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p.52

Poem Title:

Grace after Meat; Spoken extempore by a neighbouring Gentleman at the Table of a Miser, who, once in his Life, made a sumptuous Entertainment.

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First Line:

When libertine Simon was brought to town

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pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Tyburn's terrible Quarrel with Tower-Hill, about L----d L----t. In Imitation of the Measure of the old Doggrel Ballad.

Attribution:

Methuselah.

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First Line:

A rap at the door when forth from her chair

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

A Modern Visit.

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First Line:

You nursed me and bussed me and hugged me tis true

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

The Duke of C--------d's most gracious Answer to Lord L------t's Address. By Way of Epigram.

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First Line:

By my monarch's command I have taken pen and ink

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pp.60-62

Poem Title:

The same Versified.

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