The muse in good humour part II vol II [T86636]
- DMI number:
- 864
- Publication Date:
- 1745
- ESTC number:
- T86636
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW115304290
- Shelfmark:
- BOD - Harding E 139
- Full Title:
- THE | Muse in Good Humour: | Or, A COLLECTION of | ENIGMA'S, | SERIOUS and COMIC. | With a Compleat KEY to the Whole. | PART II. VOL. II. | [illustration] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for M. COOPER, at the [i]Globe[/i] in [i]Pater- | Noster-row[/i], 1745.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of comic verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Pagination:
- [i]-viii, [1]-148
- Bibliographic details:
- T86636 is a separate reprint of part II of T41629. Variations in prefatory material.
- Other matter:
- Prose Preface to the reader signed "The Publishers" [pp. iii-vi]; A key to the riddles [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 [T86635]
- Publication Date:
- 1745
- ESTC No:
- T86635
- Volume:
- None
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- The Muse in Masquerade [ESTC T83724] [ECCO]
- Publication Date:
- 1745
- ESTC No:
- T83724
- Volume:
- None of 1
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Mary Cooper
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Imprint has M. Cooper of Pater-Noster-Row. Probably Mary Cooper. See BBTI.
- First Line:
- As Pallas was the offspring of Jove's head
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- Riddle I.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I am an implement that's common
- Page No:
- pp.2-3
- Poem Title:
- Riddle II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm blacker than a winter's night
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- Riddle IV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In shaping me both sexes join
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- Riddle III.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- They who first formed me were within my womb
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- Riddle V.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From the retirements of the dead
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- Riddle VI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Coeval with the world I lay concealed
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- Riddle VII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Think not fair ladies I'm a cheat
- Page No:
- pp.8-10
- Poem Title:
- Riddle VIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though a good soul I have yet I can't hope to be saved
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- Riddle IX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas art that completed the form that I wear
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- Riddle X.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sublime erect I cut the yielding air
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Before creating nature willed
- Page No:
- pp.13-14
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I am a mute yet full of eloquence
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In youth exalted high in air
- Page No:
- pp.14-16
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ere time or place or forms were ushered in
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I came of the Cyclopean race
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In times of yore when things in common were
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Within the bowels of the earth immured
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My form is beauteous to allure the sight
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Silence ye Tories lofty Whigs attend
- Page No:
- pp.21-22
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When the warm sun withdraws its genial rays
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Most lovely situate on a rising ground
- Page No:
- pp.23-25
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Say who I am bright nymphs for surely you
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain we stretch our thoughts to find
- Page No:
- pp.26-27
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let Mandeville and Gulliver no more
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My head is well furnished without you will own
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- Ridlle [sic] XXV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though an odd kind of fowl when you hit on my name
- Page No:
- pp.30-31
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Offspring of an illustrious sire
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twin born into the world I come
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Because I am by nature blind
- Page No:
- pp.34-35
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In foreign countries from the fruitful earth
- Page No:
- pp.35-37
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In vain have men their utmost art employed
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader it is my fate to be
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To be dressed in the fashion our tailor must join
- Page No:
- pp.39-41
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hear whilst you can the poor man's orator
- Page No:
- pp.41-42
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye females polite who in riddles delight
- Page No:
- pp.43-44
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My head and tail are of one size and form
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While I try to conceal what is so much in sight
- Page No:
- pp.45-47
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In May the pleasantest month in all the year
- Page No:
- pp.47-48
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XXXIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From me a single birth my race begins
- Page No:
- pp.48-49
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XL.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From what first artist I my being claim
- Page No:
- pp.50-51
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To aid your conception in every degree
- Page No:
- pp.51-53
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When the whole universe lay self confined
- Page No:
- pp.53-54
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Revere the sage whose genius far renowned
- Page No:
- pp.54-56
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I've an head pretty large but to tell you the truth
- Page No:
- pp.56-57
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm of all kinds of vice both of age and of youth
- Page No:
- pp.57-58
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I had a being ere the world was made
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Since many strive in these ingenious days
- Page No:
- pp.59-60
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Kings reign over nations I over kings bear rule
- Page No:
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XLIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Obvious to all I sport on every plain
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What is that siren whose enchanting song
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- Riddle L.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All ruling tyrant of the earth
- Page No:
- pp.63-64
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Draw up the curtain let the ladies see
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With so much art my tender parts are wrought
- Page No:
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though I alas a prisoner be
- Page No:
- pp.66-67
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nothing was ever so wretched sure as me
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When from prolific nature's bosom rose
- Page No:
- pp.69-70
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Walking alone and near the approach of night
- Page No:
- pp.70-71
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Long time I laboured tis well known to all
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My stature though of monstrous size
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Before the eternal mind who dwells on high
- Page No:
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come hither and behold the fruits
- Page No:
- pp.75-79
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXII. The Gulph of all human Possessions.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Search all the chronicles of bearded time
- Page No:
- pp.79-80
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ladies | Say by what charmful turn of mind
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah Strephon how can you despise
- Page No:
- pp.81-83
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXV. Louisa to Strephon.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nor form nor substance does my being share
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Worked into shape by skillful art
- Page No:
- pp.85-86
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye furies cursed inhabitants of hell
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ladies | As by the unerring laws of nature
- Page No:
- pp.88-89
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Unseen by mortal eyes I roll
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let arbitrary princes boast no more
- Page No:
- pp.90-91
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- So capricious am I that if monarchs should offer
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first created Sol's reviving light
- Page No:
- pp.91-93
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ladies I'm often under hedges seen
- Page No:
- pp.93-95
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I challenge nature's treasure to produce
- Page No:
- pp.95-96
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though kings and princes my acquaintance be
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To all your fair females who sometimes partake
- Page No:
- pp.97-100
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Fetched with much labour from my native home
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I challenge nature from her store or magazine to show
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- He who begot me did conceive me too
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A thing more strange all men will say
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXXI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm doomed to lie till certain times
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXXIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When first I in this stage of life appear
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- Ridlle [sic] LXXXII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nothing I am nor real being have
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm an odd kind of monster and of a strange shape
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXXV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sure I'm the veriest Proteus ever was seen
- Page No:
- pp.105-106
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXXVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bold as a champion I my force maintain
- Page No:
- pp.106-107
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXXVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In ancient times when that the world was young
- Page No:
- pp.107-108
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some senses I have if me you'll believe
- Page No:
- pp.108-109
- Poem Title:
- Riddle LXXXIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tis doubted whence I sprung yet most agree
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XC.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- If any under the almighty be
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Sol through Aries drives his brilliant car
- Page No:
- pp.112-113
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When silent night with sable did invest
- Page No:
- pp.113-115
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I have not to boast of much humour or wit
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ladies to you I must address my tale
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A noble creature when created I
- Page No:
- pp.117-118
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From dirty form and filthy dress set free
- Page No:
- pp.118-120
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye doughty physicians attend to my lure
- Page No:
- pp.120-121
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We have long been employed and rich favours enjoyed
- Page No:
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- Riddle XCIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I owe my being like to worms that breed
- Page No:
- p.123
- Poem Title:
- Riddle C.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When good old Saturn swayed the realms of day
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Before great nature spread the seas
- Page No:
- pp.125-126
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye learned fair whose prying fancies see
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Though I never was born yet came I by smocking
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From a well manured earth I challenge my birth
- Page No:
- pp.128-129
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What's that in which good housewives take delight
- Page No:
- pp.129-130
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From heaven at first with Lucifer I fell
- Page No:
- p.130
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Known and so obvious to the literal race
- Page No:
- pp.131-132
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bred in the womb of mother earth
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While nature formed me one whole month I lay
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I lived before the flood yet still am young
- Page No:
- pp.134-135
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let it be so even the creator spoke
- Page No:
- pp.135-136
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We come from place unknown to mortal eye
- Page No:
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of the winged race I far the brightest shine
- Page No:
- pp.137-138
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I have no tongue yet elegantly speak
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Britons in me you may behold of late
- Page No:
- p.140
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXVI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dark in a cell remote from vulgar eye
- Page No:
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXVII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To every realm a welcome guest I come
- Page No:
- pp.141-142
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Great pains in vain the Greeks and Romans took
- Page No:
- pp.142-143
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXIX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- From seed or egg the tender faetus springs
- Page No:
- pp.143-144
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXX.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye riddling wits ingenious to reveal
- Page No:
- pp.144-145
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXXI.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Without my aid no mortal can survive
- Page No:
- pp.145-146
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXXII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My dame she said sirs call in Kate
- Page No:
- pp.146-147
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXXIII.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As ancient bards long since of Venus sung
- Page No:
- pp.147-148
- Poem Title:
- Riddle CXXIV.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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