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.]
- 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:
- Publisher:
- Mary Cooper
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The story every Christian knows
- Page No:
- pp.1-13
- Poem Title:
- Tale I. Bashful Ben.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Celia and I the other day
- Page No:
- pp.13-15
- Poem Title:
- Tale II. The Lady's Looking-Glass.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There lived in Lombardy as authors write
- Page No:
- pp.15-46
- Poem Title:
- Tale III. The Merchant's Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis strange what different thoughts inspire
- Page No:
- pp.46-48
- Poem Title:
- Tale IV. Desire and Posession.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Mix mix the philters quick she flies she flies
- Page No:
- pp.48-55
- Poem Title:
- Tale V. The Enchantment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In lonely walks distracted by despair
- Page No:
- pp.55-59
- Poem Title:
- Tale VI. The Vision.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Behold the woes of matrimonial life
- Page No:
- pp.60-76
- Poem Title:
- Tale VII. The Wife of Bath.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Job cursed the day that gave him birth
- Page No:
- p.76
- Poem Title:
- Tale VIII. Delia's Wedding-Night.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My friends expected me at seven
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- Tale IX. On the same Occasion.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Folks that are wickedly inclined
- Page No:
- pp.[79]-82
- Poem Title:
- Tale X. The Elbow-Chair:
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Miss Danae when fair and young
- Page No:
- pp.83-86
- Poem Title:
- Tale XI. The English-Padlock.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Quoth Simon to Thomas and showed him his wife
- Page No:
- pp.86-87
- Poem Title:
- Tale XII. Simple Simon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A batchelor more gay than sage
- Page No:
- pp.87-89
- Poem Title:
- Tale XIII. The Middle-aged Man and his Two Mistresses.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Interred beneath this marble stone
- Page No:
- pp.89-91
- Poem Title:
- Tale XIV. Sauntering Jack and Idle Joan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Once on a time in sunshine weather
- Page No:
- pp.92-94
- Poem Title:
- Tale XV. Truth and Falsehood.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In ancient times as story tells
- Page No:
- pp.94-100
- Poem Title:
- Tale XVI. Baucis and Philemon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When men have honest wives at home
- Page No:
- pp.[101]-110
- Poem Title:
- Tale XVII. The Conscientious Keeper.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first procreation began
- Page No:
- pp.110-112
- Poem Title:
- Tale XVIII. The Original of Matrimony.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who ever met with in his life
- Page No:
- pp.112-113
- Poem Title:
- Tale XIX. Female Virtue.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When fair Susannah in a cool retreat
- Page No:
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- Tale XX. Susannah and the two Elders.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade
- Page No:
- pp.114-115
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXI. Love Disarm'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The fair Pomona flourished in his reign
- Page No:
- pp.116-120
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXII. Vertumnus and Pomona.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A pleasant tale in serious works
- Page No:
- pp.[121]-128
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXIII. Saying and Doing are Two Things.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A fox would unmolested sleep
- Page No:
- pp.128-130
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXIV. The Fox and the Dragon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As through the street a Quaker chanced to pass
- Page No:
- pp.130-131
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXV. The Button-Hole.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis true I said in amorous rhymes
- Page No:
- pp.132-137
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXVI. Love atones for Little Crimes.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis strange that sex should most obey
- Page No:
- pp.138-140
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXVI. Women's Logick.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Avaro lived a private life
- Page No:
- pp.140-143
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXVIII. The Substitute Father.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In Chloe's chamber she and I
- Page No:
- pp.143-144
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXIX. A Fragment.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In days of yore when Roman rules
- Page No:
- pp.[145]-152
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXIII. The Exorcism.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Chloe this comes to let you know
- Page No:
- pp.152-154
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXXI. To Cloe.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When inclination strongly teases
- Page No:
- pp.154-158
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXXII. The Widow's Excuse.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Who can describe in numbers fit
- Page No:
- pp.158-160
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXXIII. Falling in Love.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If thou can laugh when nature guides
- Page No:
- pp.160-166
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXXIV. Balaam's Pedigree.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since now my Sylvia is as kind as fair
- Page No:
- pp.167-172
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXXV. The Happy Night.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dick served a widow of no mean esteem
- Page No:
- pp.172-174
- Poem Title:
- Tale XXXVI. The Game of Put.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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