The foundling hospital for wit [vol. V] [T64454]

DMI number:

756

Publication Date:

1748

Volume Number:

5 of 5

ESTC number:

T64454

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116438329

Shelfmark:

BOD G. Pamph. 1289

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 V. To be Continued Occasionally. | CONTAINING, | [2 columns] [column 1]1. The Litchfield Defeat. | 2. The Answer. | 3. Ode to [i]P. Y----ke[/i], Esq; | 4. [i]Richmond[/i], a Vision. | 5. [i]Bergen-op-zoom[/i], a Ballad. | 6. [i]Balaam[/i] and [i]Palaam[/i]. | 7. Green-Room Scuffle. | 8. Epistle from [i]G. Hinde[/i]. | 9. Hymn for the 9th of [i]Oct[/i]. | 10. Advice to the [i]French[/i] King's Painter.[/column 1] [column 2]11. Lamentations of [i]Lewis[/i] 15. | 12. On the Tax on Coaches. | 13. Ode to Sir [i]C--- H--- W---[/i]. | 14. [i]Diggon Davy[/i] and [i]Colin Clout[/i]. | 15. An Apology. | 16. Downfall of [i]Westm.[/i] Bridge. | 17. Plot and no Plot. | 18. [i]Boeotia[/i]. | 19. [i]Europe[/i] in Masquerade. | 20. Speech of King [i]Harry[/i] | the Ninth.[/column 2] | [i]With many other Curious Pieces, some of which never | before printed. | [rule] | By[/i] TIMOTHY SILENCE, [i]Esq[/i]. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]. | Printed for W. WEBB, near St. [i]Paul[/i]'s, 1748. | [Price One Shilling.] | Where may be had any of the Preceding Numbers.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Political miscellany and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Price:

1 s.

Pagination:

[2], [1]-62

Bibliographic details:

Octavo in fours. BOD. G. Pamph. 1289 is bound with vol. 6 (T64456) only.

Comments:

Miscellany Contents: prose pp.14-17; pp.26-27; pp.59-62.

References:

Case 440 (5) (a)

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Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

God prosper long our noble king

Page No:

pp.1-4

Poem Title:

The Litchfield Defeat.

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First Line:

God prosper long great George our king

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pp.4-6

Poem Title:

The Answer.

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First Line:

For quiet Yorke the sailor cries

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pp.6-8

Poem Title:

An Ode to the Honourable Philip Y--ke, Esq; Imitated from Horace, Ode XVI. Book II.

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First Line:

In that soft season when the blushing rose

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pp.8-11

Poem Title:

Richmond, a Vision.

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First Line:

Haven't you heard of a fortress renowned in fame

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pp.11-13

Poem Title:

A Ballad on the Rape of Bergen-op-Zoom.

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First Line:

Ye peers ye cits and beaux

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pp.17-20

Poem Title:

The Green-Room Scuffle: Or Drury-Lane in an Uproar. To the Tune of Gossip Joan.

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First Line:

Master an't please you I do zend

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pp.20-22

Poem Title:

An Epistle from George Hind, Clerk of the Parish of M----rd----n in Dorset, to the absent Vicar Mr------

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First Line:

Come Britons in triumphant songs

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

A Hymn for the 9th of October 1746, being the Thanksgiving Day for the Victory over the Rebels at Culloden.

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First Line:

Painter display in honour of the state

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

Advice to the French King's Chief Painter, how to represent in its true light, the Glory of his Master, and the Happiness of his Subjects and his Allies.

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First Line:

Before Bohemian Anne was queen

Page No:

pp.27-28

Poem Title:

Upon the Tax on Coaches, &c.

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First Line:

Genius of Britain spread thy Guardian wing

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pp.29-30

Poem Title:

To the Genius of Britain.

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First Line:

Why our forces miscarried the wonder is out

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p.29

Poem Title:

Thought on the late Expedition.

Attribution:

J. L.

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First Line:

Here lies an head that often ached

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pp.30-31

Poem Title:

An Anatomical Epitaph on an Invalid.

Attribution:

Written by * Himself. [asterisked note reads: 'The Learned, Facetious and Rev. Wm. Goodwin, late Fellow of Eaton College, and Vicar of St. Nicholas in Bristol, who dy'd in June last, and left several other Pieces of the like kind.']

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First Line:

We saw Sir Andrew's but Ld W--poole's first

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p.31

Poem Title:

Part of a Letter from a Gentleman, who had lately visited N--f--k, to his Friend.

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First Line:

On a hill from danger free

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p.33

Poem Title:

The Heroism of Lewis XV. at the late Battle of Val.

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First Line:

When the French heretofore like the Gauls whence they spring

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p.33

Poem Title:

Remark.

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First Line:

The states at last with one accord

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p.34

Poem Title:

Europe in Masquerade: Or the Royal Farce.

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First Line:

Who's this what H----y the lyric

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pp.35-36

Poem Title:

An Ode to Sir C---- H---- W------s. Occasion'd by seeing an Ode inscrib'd to L------d C------d.

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First Line:

Beneath an hawthorn bush secreted shade

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pp.36-39

Poem Title:

A Pastoral. Diggon Davy and Colin Clout.

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First Line:

In nature twas kind by the charms of a face

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p.39

Poem Title:

On Miss Madan, after hearing repeated, | 'If to her Share some Female Errors fall, | 'Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. | Pope's Rape of the Lock.

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First Line:

In vain you boast poetic names of yore

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pp.39-40

Poem Title:

To Lady Winchelsea, occasioned by four verses in the Rape of the Lock.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope (not in his Works.)

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Not attributed

First Line:

Disarmed with so genteel an air

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Lady Winchelsea's Answer.

Attribution:

Lady Winchelsea's Answer.

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

O night dark night wrapped round with Stygian gloom

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

New Night-Thoughts on Death. A Parody. By Mr. Wh****.

Attribution:

By Mr. Wh****.

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First Line:

Zealous for truth and careless of applause

Page No:

pp.43-44

Poem Title:

An Apology.

Attribution:

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First Line:

By your honour's command

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p.44

Poem Title:

A Sailor in his Majesty's Sloop the Tartar, being sentenc'd to the Cat-o'-nine-tails, spoke the following Lines to his Commander.

Attribution:

A Sailor

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First Line:

Her lance inverted head reclined

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p.45

Poem Title:

Britannia revived; the Hint suggested by Mr. R. Y.

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First Line:

Take a Tory that measures two yards in the waist

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pp.45-46

Poem Title:

A Whimsical receipt, perfectly in the Modern Taste.

Attribution:

C. B.

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First Line:

When good St David as old writs accord

Page No:

p.46

Poem Title:

In Honour of the first of March.

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First Line:

I sing not of battles nor do I much choose

Page No:

pp.48-52

Poem Title:

The Downfall of Westminster Bridge.

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First Line:

Ye lords and ye commons give ear to my ditty

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

Plot or No Plot. Or Sir William and his Spy foiled. A new Ballad.

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First Line:

As late I mused upon the fates

Page No:

pp.54-59

Poem Title:

Boeotia; a Poem. Humbly Addressed to his Excellency Philip Earl of Chesterfield.

Attribution:

By the Rev. William Dunkin, D. D.

Attributed To:

William Dunkin