The foundling hospital for wit [vol. IV] [T64453]

DMI number:

741

Publication Date:

1763

Volume Number:

4 of 6

ESTC number:

T64453

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110770818

Shelfmark:

BOD Douce W 170

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]Stephen 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 Letter, | 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. 1763. | [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, Political miscellany, and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Price:

1 s.

Pagination:

[2], [1]-62

Bibliographic details:

Octavo in fours.

Comments:

Miscellany contents: Prose on pp.37-46; pp.54-55; pp.58-59.

Other matter:

Prefatory material: Contents (1p.)

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Content/Publication

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

Page No:

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

Page No:

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

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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.

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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.

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R.

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First Line:

The pride of France is lily white

Page No:

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:

Jove said let there be light and lo

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p.47

Poem Title:

On passing the Window-Tax.

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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

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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

Page No:

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

Page No:

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.

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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

Page No:

pp.60-62

Poem Title:

The same Versified.

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