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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
Page No:
pp.1-13
Poem Title:
Tale I. Bashful Ben.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Celia and I the other day
Page No:
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.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
First Line:
Tis strange what different thoughts inspire
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pp.46-48
Poem Title:
Tale IV. Desire and Posession.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Mix mix the philters quick she flies she flies
Page No:
pp.48-55
Poem Title:
Tale V. The Enchantment.
Attribution:
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Not attributed
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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Not attributed
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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Not attributed
First Line:
Job cursed the day that gave him birth
Page No:
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
Poem Title:
Tale X. The Elbow-Chair:
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First Line:
Miss Danae when fair and young
Page No:
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
Page No:
pp.86-87
Poem Title:
Tale XII. Simple Simon.
Attribution:
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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.
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First Line:
Interred beneath this marble stone
Page No:
pp.89-91
Poem Title:
Tale XIV. Sauntering Jack and Idle Joan.
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First Line:
Once on a time in sunshine weather
Page No:
pp.92-94
Poem Title:
Tale XV. Truth and Falsehood.
Attribution:
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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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Not attributed
First Line:
When men have honest wives at home
Page No:
pp.[101]-110
Poem Title:
Tale XVII. The Conscientious Keeper.
Attribution:
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First Line:
When first procreation began
Page No:
pp.110-112
Poem Title:
Tale XVIII. The Original of Matrimony.
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First Line:
Who ever met with in his life
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pp.112-113
Poem Title:
Tale XIX. Female Virtue.
Attribution:
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First Line:
When fair Susannah in a cool retreat
Page No:
p.113
Poem Title:
Tale XX. Susannah and the two Elders.
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First Line:
Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade
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pp.114-115
Poem Title:
Tale XXI. Love Disarm'd.
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First Line:
The fair Pomona flourished in his reign
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pp.116-120
Poem Title:
Tale XXII. Vertumnus and Pomona.
Attribution:
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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:
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First Line:
A fox would unmolested sleep
Page No:
pp.128-130
Poem Title:
Tale XXIV. The Fox and the Dragon.
Attribution:
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First Line:
As through the street a Quaker chanced to pass
Page No:
pp.130-131
Poem Title:
Tale XXV. The Button-Hole.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Tis true I said in amorous rhymes
Page No:
pp.132-137
Poem Title:
Tale XXVI. Love atones for Little Crimes.
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First Line:
Tis strange that sex should most obey
Page No:
pp.138-140
Poem Title:
Tale XXVI. Women's Logick.
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First Line:
Avaro lived a private life
Page No:
pp.140-143
Poem Title:
Tale XXVIII. The Substitute Father.
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First Line:
In Chloe's chamber she and I
Page No:
pp.143-144
Poem Title:
Tale XXIX. A Fragment.
Attribution:
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First Line:
In days of yore when Roman rules
Page No:
pp.[145]-152
Poem Title:
Tale XXIII. The Exorcism.
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First Line:
Chloe this comes to let you know
Page No:
pp.152-154
Poem Title:
Tale XXXI. To Cloe.
Attribution:
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First Line:
When inclination strongly teases
Page No:
pp.154-158
Poem Title:
Tale XXXII. The Widow's Excuse.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Who can describe in numbers fit
Page No:
pp.158-160
Poem Title:
Tale XXXIII. Falling in Love.
Attribution:
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First Line:
If thou can laugh when nature guides
Page No:
pp.160-166
Poem Title:
Tale XXXIV. Balaam's Pedigree.
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First Line:
Since now my Sylvia is as kind as fair
Page No:
pp.167-172
Poem Title:
Tale XXXV. The Happy Night.
Attribution:
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First Line:
Dick served a widow of no mean esteem
Page No:
pp.172-174
Poem Title:
Tale XXXVI. The Game of Put.
Attribution:
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