The muse's vagaries or the merry mortal's companion [Part II] [ESTC T170724]
- DMI number:
- 775
- Publication Date:
- 1745
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T170724
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW116375698
- Shelfmark:
- BOD Harding E 136
- Full Title:
- THE | Muse's Vagaries; | OR, THE | MERRY MORTAL's | COMPANION. | CONSISTING OF | [2 columns] [column 1] [i]Facetious Tales, | Satirical Jokes, | Diverting Letters, | Comical Songs, [column 1] | [column 2] Humorous Epigrams, | Whimsical Wills, | Epitaphs,[/i] &c. | &c. &c.&c. [/column 2] | The whole calculated to create Mirth and | good Humour; to cure the Spleen and expel Va- | pours; drive away Sorrow; and increase the Di- | version of all the Merry Fellows, Honest Hearts, | and Jovial Souls round about the Wrekin. | [rule] | BY | Sir SOLOMON GUNDY, Knt. | AND | MARGERY MERRYPIN, Spinster. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | PART II. | [rule] | L [i]ONDON:[/i] | Printed for BEN. JOHNSON, Jun. near [i]St. Paul[/i]'s. | MDCCXLV. | (Price [i]One Shilling[/i] and [i]Six-Pence.[/i])
- Epigraph:
- [i]Content is Wealth, the Riches of the Mind; | And happy he who can that Treasure find![/i] DRYDEN. [i]Begone my Cares; I give you to the Winds.[/i] ROW.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Unknown
- Price:
- 1s 6d
- Pagination:
- [4], [1]-122
- Bibliographic details:
- Parts I and II of T170724 bound together in same book with same shelf mark. It is unclear whether they were published or sold seperately. ECCO copy CW116375698 contains both parts I and II.
- Comments:
- Prose instructions on how to become an exciseman [pp. 49-51]
- Other matter:
- Contents page [2pp.]
- Title:
- The muse's vagaries or the merry mortal's companion [Part I] [ESTC T170724]
- Publication Date:
- 1745
- ESTC No:
- T170724
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Part of a Series
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The clock struck eight the morning cleared
- Page No:
- pp.1-3
- Poem Title:
- A Winter's Journey to Preach.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The dean would visit market hill
- Page No:
- pp.4-5
- Poem Title:
- The Lady's Complaint; or, Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson's in the North of Ireland.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift [contents page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Hail Raleigh venerable shade
- Page No:
- pp.6-11
- Poem Title:
- The Irish Posset, or the Lady reconciled to Tobacco. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I dreamt my dear quoth Ralph to Joan
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- A true Dream.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Some husbands on a winter's day
- Page No:
- pp.11-18
- Poem Title:
- The English Wife; or, the Petticoat Prerogative. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Your sage and moralist can show
- Page No:
- pp.18-27
- Poem Title:
- The Plague of Riches; or the happy Cobler. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Taught by long miseries we find
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- The Moral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The midnight justice now devoid of care
- Page No:
- pp.28-31
- Poem Title:
- A Covent-Garden Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A whimsical pain has just caught me
- Page No:
- pp.31-33
- Poem Title:
- Moll Row Moggify'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let loftier bards the hero's acts relate
- Page No:
- pp.33-37
- Poem Title:
- The Mouse and the Oyster.
- Attribution:
- a poetical Gentleman
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dick's wife was sick and posed the doctor's skill
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- Dick the best Doctor. An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of Bray the Vicar long I've been
- Page No:
- pp.38-41
- Poem Title:
- The Vicar of Bray. A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Grant me gods a little seat
- Page No:
- pp.41-43
- Poem Title:
- A Little Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To you my true and faithful friend
- Page No:
- pp.43-46
- Poem Title:
- Verses sent to Dean Swift on his Birthday
- Attribution:
- by a Friend of the Dean's.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Know every Christian man alive
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- The following Receipt was occasion'd by a Quarrel between 'Squire Ingr-m of Great Woolford in Warwickshire, and the Curate of the same Place, who was poor enough.
- Attribution:
- J. Free.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How poorly your projectors fare
- Page No:
- pp.47-49
- Poem Title:
- The Disappointed Milkmaid.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Richie and Pattie sat up very late
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- On a noted Author and his Wife, who assisted each other in writing a Love-Poem.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Buckram reels home over charged with many a pot
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- The Invincible Wife.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How strange an hurly burly
- Page No:
- pp.52-59
- Poem Title:
- The Distrest Chaplain. A Hard Case: But a true Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dear sir | Regarding neither blame nor praise
- Page No:
- pp.59-63
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle from a Clergyman to his Friend. Describing the happy Life of a Country Parson.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Humbly sheweth | That I went to warm myself in Lady Betty's chamber because I was cold
- Page No:
- pp.63-68
- Poem Title:
- To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve, and die a Maid if it miscarries.
- Attribution:
- By Dean Swift [Contents page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Two able physicians as ever prescribed physic
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- The Mistaken Physicians.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye lads and ye lasses that live at Longleat
- Page No:
- pp.68-71
- Poem Title:
- A Cremona Fiddle. A Celebrated Song. To the Tune of the Abbot of Canterbury.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We sage Cartesians who profess
- Page No:
- pp.71-77
- Poem Title:
- The Fair Nun. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In ancient times as story tells
- Page No:
- pp.77-83
- Poem Title:
- The Gods in Masquerade. A Popish Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Well tis as Bickerstaff has guessed
- Page No:
- pp.83-86
- Poem Title:
- A Grubstreet Elegy on the Death of Partridge the Almanack-Maker.
- Attribution:
- Dr. Swift [contents page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Come hither good people both aged and young
- Page No:
- pp.87-90
- Poem Title:
- A Yorkshire Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here five foot deep lies on his back
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- The Epitaph.
- Attribution:
- by the same [ie. Swift. Contents page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- My better self my heaven my joy
- Page No:
- pp.90-92
- Poem Title:
- The A la Mode Couple.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Now hardly here and there an hackney coach
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- A Description of the Morning. Written in London.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Swift [Contents page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Careful observers may foretell the hour
- Page No:
- pp.93-95
- Poem Title:
- A Description of a City Shower.
- Attribution:
- by the same [ie. Swift. Contents page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Whylom in Kent there dwelt a clerke
- Page No:
- pp.95-99
- Poem Title:
- A Tale, devised in the plesaunt manere of gentil Maister Jeoffrey Chaucer,
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are
- Page No:
- pp.99-101
- Poem Title:
- Dean Swift's Character of the Late L--d C--tts; represented in the Description of a Salamander.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Swift [Contents page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- First Line:
- Sirs | We the maids of Exon city
- Page No:
- pp.101-107
- Poem Title:
- The Exeter Maidens Petition, humbly address'd to the Hon. House of Commons.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In good King Lewis's land
- Page No:
- pp.107-110
- Poem Title:
- The Dyer of Roan. To the Tune of Old Simon the King.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Jemmy the second not Jemmy the first
- Page No:
- pp.111-112
- Poem Title:
- The Warming-Pan, A Song for the use of the Scotch Rebels. Anno 1745.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'll tell you a story a story that's true
- Page No:
- pp.112-116
- Poem Title:
- The Snipe, or the Stinking Friar. A Song. To the Tune of, A Cobler there was &c.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beauty's a gaudy sign no more
- Page No:
- pp.116-118
- Poem Title:
- The Curious Maid. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A farmer once to London went
- Page No:
- pp.118-122
- Poem Title:
- The Biters Bit. A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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