The foundling hospital for wit. Number II. [T64447]
- DMI number:
- 696
- Publication Date:
- 1743
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T64447
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW109397576
- Shelfmark:
- BOD G.Pamph. 1165 (9)
- Full Title:
- THE | Foundling Hospital, | FOR | WIT. | [rule] | NUMBER II. | [rule] | CONTAINING, | [2 columns] [column 1]The Ballance of [i]Europe[/i]. | Prenez le Roy, to M. [i]Noailles[/i]. | The Marshal's Answer. | On the C-----s of [i]Y------h[/i] making | the Campaign. | On [i]L--g--nier[/i]'s passing the [i]Rhine[/i]. | The Lion and Frogs. | On the March of the [i]D----h[/i]. | [i]Britannia[/i]'s Lamentation and Peti- | tion to the D--ke. | A New Ballad on Beating the | [i]French[/i]. | A Letter from the Blues ------ | News from the Army on the K--g | and D--ke. | To Fortune, on [i]S--------ys[/i] and | [i]W------ple[/i]. | The Mistake. | The Downfal of Dancing, to the Ladies of [i]Blackheath[/i]. | An Epigram on Ld [i]G--l--y[/i] and | his Cook.[/column 1] [column 2]A Lesson from [i]H------r.[/i] | A New Ballad on our Riches. | On [i]Faction Detected[/i]. | The Carters, [i]John[/i] and [i]Will[/i]. | The Gracious Refusal. | On the Promotion of the Rt. Hon. | [i]H. Pelham[/i]. | The Interview between [i]Harry[/i] and | [i]Will[/i]. | To the E. of [i]B------h[/i], on [i]Faction | Detected[/i]. | Epigram on the Blues. | An Ode to the new M------s. | An Ode to the Earl of [i]B------h[/i]. | Faction Detected, a New Ballad. | A Humourous Ballad, to Lord | [i]G------m.[/i] | Verses occasion'd by the many Sa- | tires on the Government. | On a late Transaction, to the D-- | of [i]M-------h[/i].[/column 2] | [i]With many Curious Pieces never before printed, and a | General Table of Contents to the Whole.[/i] | [rule] | [i]By[/i] TIMOTHY SILENCE, [i]Esq[/i]; | [rule] | LONDON: Printed for J. LYON in [i]Ludgate-street[/i]. 1743. | [digit] LETTERS Directed for the AUTHOR at [i]Brown[/i]'s Coffee- | House [i]Spring-Garden[/i], will be receiv'd. [Price One Shilling.]
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Political miscellany
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 1 s.
- Pagination:
- [2], iii-iv, [1]-60.
- Bibliographic details:
- Octavo in fours. Signatures in B have been printed on wrong leaves - they run: "B", "B3", "[blank]", "2". 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: French poem on p.56
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY: 'The Contents to the First Number' (pp.iii-iv) BACK MATTER: 'The Contents of Number II.' (pp.58-60)
- References:
- Case 440 (2) (a)
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [T64446] [reprint of T64445]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T64446
- Volume:
- 1 of 4
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit. [T64445] [different setting to T64444]
- Publication Date:
- 1743
- ESTC No:
- T64445
- Volume:
- 1 of 1
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [P6689] [volumes 1-6, 1743-1764]
- Publication Date:
- 1743
- ESTC No:
- P6689
- Volume:
- None of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [T64444] [different setting to T64445]
- Publication Date:
- 1743
- ESTC No:
- T64444
- Volume:
- 1 of 6
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. II] [T64448]
- Publication Date:
- 1744
- ESTC No:
- T64448
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. III] [T64450]
- Publication Date:
- 1746
- ESTC No:
- T64450
- Volume:
- 3 of 3
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. III] [T64451] [different setting to T64450]
- Publication Date:
- 1746
- ESTC No:
- T64451
- Volume:
- 3 of 3
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. IV] [T64452]
- Publication Date:
- 1747
- ESTC No:
- T64452
- Volume:
- 4 of 4
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. IV] [T64453]
- Publication Date:
- 1763
- ESTC No:
- T64453
- Volume:
- 4 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. V] [T64454]
- Publication Date:
- 1748
- ESTC No:
- T64454
- Volume:
- 5 of 5
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. V] [T64455]
- Publication Date:
- 1764
- ESTC No:
- T64455
- Volume:
- 5 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. VI] [T64456]
- Publication Date:
- 1749
- ESTC No:
- T64456
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit [vol. VI] [T64457] [different setting to T64456]
- Publication Date:
- 1749
- ESTC No:
- T64457
- Volume:
- 6 of 6
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- Title:
- The foundling hospital for wit. Number II [T64449]
- Publication Date:
- 1749
- ESTC No:
- T64449
- Volume:
- 2 of 6
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Author:
- Timothy Silence
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Jacob Robinson
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- "J. Lyon" may be a pseudonym for J. Robinson, according to BBTI.
- Publisher:
- John Lyon [or Lion]
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Prenez le Roy cries grand Marshall Noailles
- Page No:
- p.[1]
- Poem Title:
- Prenez le Roy. To Marshall Noailles.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While in suspense the scales of Europe hung
- Page No:
- p.[1]
- Poem Title:
- The Ballance.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As soon as on the banks of Rhine
- Page No:
- pp.2-3
- Poem Title:
- On the British, Austrian, and German Auxiliary Forces passing the Rhine.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I lost not the field though for it I fought
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- Marshall Noailles's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The French though beat te deum sing
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- On the French singing Te Deum at Paris.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With G---- what hero can compare
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- On the C---- of Y----'s making the Campaign.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The king save his grace
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- A Poetical Epistle from a Great Man in the Army.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The king god be praised
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- An Account of the Battle between the French and the Allies, as sent into the Country.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At wit perplexed if you would smile
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- The Gallic Heroes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While France her treacherous arms employs
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- To the Emperor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On the banks of the Main as our soldiers were walking
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On the banks of the Main
- Page No:
- pp.6-7
- Poem Title:
- The Campaign and its Historians.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To C-bb--r cries Sir John ye lazy rogue
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- An Excuse for the Laureat.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great God of hosts attending the complaints
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- Cardinal Tenchin's Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Vain are the achievements of the sword
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- On the Means of perpetuating the Fame of Great Actions.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A frog and lion made alliance
- Page No:
- pp.8-9
- Poem Title:
- The Lion and the Frogs. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A strutting cock ambitious grown
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- A Fable on the late Transactions in Germany.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In hostile fields why lives my lord
- Page No:
- pp.10-11
- Poem Title:
- B------a's Lamentation and Petition.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Britons rejoice
- Page No:
- pp.11-12
- Poem Title:
- A New Ballad; or, Britons Rejoice, &c. To the Tune of Handell's March in Scipio.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- His foe the Parthian better to amuse
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What need of Hallelujahs pray
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- The following Lines were occasion'd by reading a Grand, Mysterious Coffee-House Ode on the Battle of Dettingen; the second Line of which is express'd in these majestical Terms: "All true Britons, sing Hallelujah!"
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Lewis see the fate of kings
- Page No:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- French Policy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Lewis had heard by each trembling courier
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen of Hungary.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With haughty pride the French proclaimed
- Page No:
- pp.13
- Poem Title:
- The Scene Chang'd: An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear friend of the blues
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- The Substance of a certain Letter.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In our accounts tis something rare
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- A Thought on our Army Intelligence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once more let me beg you speak up for the blues
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Postscript.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The news I send in altered style
- Page No:
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- News from the Army.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh goddess thou who rules at court
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Book I. Ode XXXV. Translated, Imitated, and Paraphras'd. To Fortune.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye think our Highlands bleak and bare
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- Verses witten by a Highlander the Day before he was taken.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To sum up all the current news
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- A Summary of Intelligence, Domestic and Foreign.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When lately G---- and Gallia's sons
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- The Mistake.
- Attribution:
- C. B.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The week spent in labour in trouble in care
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- A Lesson from H----n----r.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why railest thou Thomas as if we were poor
- Page No:
- pp.21-23
- Poem Title:
- A New Ballad upon the Riches of Great Britain. Occasion'd by a late Calculation.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To whom is Frederick an ally
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- On the Conduct of a certain Great Prince.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When V--rn--n is willing to shake hands with Spain
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- The Catastrophe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O libel born to endless shame
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- On Faction Detected.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Things may well go slowly on
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- The Carters.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When the great Earl of B---- with most dog-like submission
- Page No:
- pp.24-25
- Poem Title:
- The Gracious Refusal.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The story goes as fame will tattle still
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- The Interview.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When to the King the tidings Carteret bore
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- On the Promotion of the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Esqr;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- No league with our wishes since fortune will hold
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- The Metamorphosis.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While Europe is divided all with care
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- On a Nobleman's Arrival at H------n-Hall.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your sheets I've perused
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- To the E. of B----, Occasion'd by a late Pamphlet, entitled, Faction detected.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A patriot of old tis said
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- The Parallel.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Never dare draw me without reason shown
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- A Motto for a Sword.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Tory Oxford ruled the roost
- Page No:
- pp.29-30
- Poem Title:
- Potatoes and Hemp: Or, Tories and Robertsmen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When on the treasury lived the Gazetteer
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- Occasioned by a Paragraph in the Gazetteer.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- France lately was at Europe's head
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- The Cardinals.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He is grown old he is abhorred
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Imitation of
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If through fear of disgrace into danger we run
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Attend ye brave Britons of every degree
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- Plain Thoughts, &c. A New Ballad.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear Jeffrey did thou never meet
- Page No:
- pp.34-35
- Poem Title:
- A Simile. To Jeffrey Broadbottom, Esq;
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Wits point your arrows keen and quick
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- Ode. To the new M--------rs.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Attend to my call
- Page No:
- pp.35-37
- Poem Title:
- A New Ballad. To the Tune of Ye Commons and Peers.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold the image of a favourite peer
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- Occasioned by the sight of a Print of Lord Gower.
- Attribution:
- A------s.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When British horse but chiefly B----
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- A Song sung in the B-----h Camp. To the Tune of Cuckoo.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Arrive in safety all ye heroes brave
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- On the Arrival of G------ O------.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The H---- of C------ we may call
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- A Synonymous Song on a Shitten Subject. To its own proper Tune.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In each ambitious measure crossed
- Page No:
- pp.40-41
- Poem Title:
- Hor. Lib. II. Ode XVI. Otium Divos, &c. Imitated. Inscribed to the E. of B.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I sing of food by British nurse designed
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- The Art of making Hasty-Pudding.
- Attribution:
- By the late W. King, L. L. D.
- Attributed To:
- William King
- First Line:
- When we review our Britain's present state
- Page No:
- pp.42-43
- Poem Title:
- The present State of Great Britain.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye close-fisted rogues whom the city beshrieves
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- A Midsummer Pasquinade, found in the Streets of London.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Quoth S----s to P------y since words may cause fighting
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- Faction Detected. A New Ballad. To the Tune of Derry down.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Soldier complete in bravery and art
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of the Duke of Argyll.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain Argyll with godlike virtue stood
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- On hearing that the Duke of Argyll had recover'd the free Use of his Reason before his Death.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis not the tomb in marble polished high
- Page No:
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on a poor honest Man; intended to be plac'd on a Stone in the Chancel of the Church at Bromham in the County of Wilts.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What dreadful judgements threaten this our isle
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of John, Duke of Argyll.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To you gay girls of Greenwich Town
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- The Downfall of Dancing; or a bright Thought of the Squire's. An original Song, most humbly addrest to the young Ladies that frequent the Green-man Assembly on Blackheath.
- Attribution:
- By Richard Wronghead, of Blunder-Hall in the Island of Sheepy Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath this rugged stone doth lie
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on his Wife Bess.
- Attribution:
- By Timothy Stonecutter.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When dark oblivion in her sable cloak
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- The Cave of Pope. A Prophecy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come listen a while and I'll tell you some news
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- This Ballad, tho' wrote some time ago, was never in Print, and is too good to be lost.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love thy votary let me live
- Page No:
- pp.50-51
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas written to obviate an Objection to an English Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Believe me friends whatever you do
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- Verses occasion'd by seeing such innumerable Satires writ against the Government; address'd to all true Lovers of their Country.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Says my lord to his cook you son of a punk
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- Epigram On his Excellency the Lord Galway and his Cook.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once Hymen abused for the matches he made
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Hymen's Triumph. On the Marriage of Mr. Richard Beauchamp, To Miss Juliana Keating, on Thursday May 5th, 1743.
- Attribution:
- By the Rev. William Dunkin, M. A. of Trin. Col. Dublin.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunkin
- First Line:
- Ladies whose dress wit sprightliness and air
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- A Sketch of Paris. In 1741.
- Attribution:
- By Gallo-Anglus.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By various paths the great ascend
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- On a late Transaction.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He's Sisyphus that strives with mighty pain
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Sisyphus.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The puffing art how vastly it improves
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Upon a very late Piece of Hague Intelligence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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