The muse in good humour [T86635]

DMI number:

844

Publication Date:

1745

ESTC number:

T86635

Shelfmark:

BOD - Harding E 138 (1)

Full Title:

THE | Muse in Good Humour: | OR, A | COLLECTION | OF THE | Best POEMS, COMIC TALES, CHOICE | FABLES, ENIGMAS, &c. | From the most Eminent POETS. | With some ORIGINALS. | PART I | CONTAINING, | [2 columns] [column 1] Bashful Ben. | The Ladies Looking Glass. | The Merchant's Tale. | Desire and Possession. | The Enchantment. | The Wife of Bath. | Truth and Falsehood. | Simple Simon. | The imperfect Enjoyment. | The English Padlock. | The Vision. | Middle aged Man and his two | Mistresses. | Sauntering Jack and idle Joan. | Baucis and Philemon. | The Original of Matrimony. | Susannah and the two Elders. | Female Virtue. | Love Disarmed. [/column 1] [column 2] Delia's Wedding-Night. | Vertumnus and Pomona. | The Conscientious Keeper. | The Fox and Dragon. | The Button-Hole. | The Elbow Chair. | Love attones for little Crimes. | Saying and Doing are two | Things. | Woman's Logick. | The Substitute Father. | To Cloe. | A Fragment. | The Exorcism. | The Widow's Excuse. | Falling in Love. | Balaam's Pedigree. | The Happy Night. | A Game at Put. [/column 2] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for M. COOPER, at the [i]Globe[/i] in [i]Pater- | Noster-Row.[/i] | [rule] | MDCCXLV.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Duodecimo

Bibliographic details:

T86635 is a separate re-print of Part I of T41629

Other matter:

Prose preface [2pp.]

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The muse in good humour [ESTC T41629]

Publication Date:

1745

ESTC No:

T41629

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Title:

The muse in good humour part II vol II [T86636]

Publication Date:

1745

ESTC No:

T86636

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Mary Cooper

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

The story every Christian knows

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pp.1-13

Poem Title:

Tale I. Bashful Ben.

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First Line:

Celia and I the other day

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pp.13-15

Poem Title:

Tale II. The Lady's Looking-Glass.

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First Line:

There lived in Lombardy as authors write

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pp.15-46

Poem Title:

Tale III. The Merchant's Tale.

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First Line:

Tis strange what different thoughts inspire

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pp.46-48

Poem Title:

Tale IV. Desire and Posession.

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First Line:

Mix mix the philters quick she flies she flies

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pp.48-55

Poem Title:

Tale V. The Enchantment.

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First Line:

In lonely walks distracted by despair

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pp.55-59

Poem Title:

Tale VI. The Vision.

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First Line:

Behold the woes of matrimonial life

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pp.60-76

Poem Title:

Tale VII. The Wife of Bath.

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First Line:

Job cursed the day that gave him birth

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p.76

Poem Title:

Tale VIII. Delia's Wedding-Night.

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First Line:

My friends expected me at seven

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pp.77-78

Poem Title:

Tale IX. On the same Occasion.

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First Line:

Folks that are wickedly inclined

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pp.[79]-82

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Tale X. The Elbow-Chair:

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First Line:

Miss Danae when fair and young

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pp.83-86

Poem Title:

Tale XI. The English-Padlock.

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First Line:

Quoth Simon to Thomas and showed him his wife

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pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Tale XII. Simple Simon.

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First Line:

A batchelor more gay than sage

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pp.87-89

Poem Title:

Tale XIII. The Middle-aged Man and his Two Mistresses.

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Interred beneath this marble stone

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pp.89-91

Poem Title:

Tale XIV. Sauntering Jack and Idle Joan.

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Once on a time in sunshine weather

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pp.92-94

Poem Title:

Tale XV. Truth and Falsehood.

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First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

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pp.94-100

Poem Title:

Tale XVI. Baucis and Philemon.

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First Line:

When men have honest wives at home

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pp.[101]-110

Poem Title:

Tale XVII. The Conscientious Keeper.

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When first procreation began

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pp.110-112

Poem Title:

Tale XVIII. The Original of Matrimony.

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Who ever met with in his life

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pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Tale XIX. Female Virtue.

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When fair Susannah in a cool retreat

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p.113

Poem Title:

Tale XX. Susannah and the two Elders.

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Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade

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pp.114-115

Poem Title:

Tale XXI. Love Disarm'd.

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The fair Pomona flourished in his reign

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pp.116-120

Poem Title:

Tale XXII. Vertumnus and Pomona.

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First Line:

A pleasant tale in serious works

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pp.[121]-128

Poem Title:

Tale XXIII. Saying and Doing are Two Things.

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A fox would unmolested sleep

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pp.128-130

Poem Title:

Tale XXIV. The Fox and the Dragon.

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As through the street a Quaker chanced to pass

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pp.130-131

Poem Title:

Tale XXV. The Button-Hole.

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First Line:

Tis true I said in amorous rhymes

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pp.132-137

Poem Title:

Tale XXVI. Love atones for Little Crimes.

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Tis strange that sex should most obey

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pp.138-140

Poem Title:

Tale XXVI. Women's Logick.

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Avaro lived a private life

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pp.140-143

Poem Title:

Tale XXVIII. The Substitute Father.

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In Chloe's chamber she and I

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pp.143-144

Poem Title:

Tale XXIX. A Fragment.

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In days of yore when Roman rules

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pp.[145]-152

Poem Title:

Tale XXIII. The Exorcism.

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First Line:

Chloe this comes to let you know

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pp.152-154

Poem Title:

Tale XXXI. To Cloe.

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First Line:

When inclination strongly teases

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pp.154-158

Poem Title:

Tale XXXII. The Widow's Excuse.

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First Line:

Who can describe in numbers fit

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pp.158-160

Poem Title:

Tale XXXIII. Falling in Love.

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First Line:

If thou can laugh when nature guides

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pp.160-166

Poem Title:

Tale XXXIV. Balaam's Pedigree.

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Since now my Sylvia is as kind as fair

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pp.167-172

Poem Title:

Tale XXXV. The Happy Night.

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First Line:

Dick served a widow of no mean esteem

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pp.172-174

Poem Title:

Tale XXXVI. The Game of Put.

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