The Oxfordshire contest: or the whole controversy between the old and new interest [T62282] [ECCO]

DMI number:

853

Publication Date:

1753

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T62282

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113251573

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

THE | Oxfordshire Contest: | OR THE | WHOLE CONTROVERSY | BETWEEN | The [i]Old[/i] and [i]New Interest[/i]. | CONTAINING | Great Variety of WIT, HUMOUR, and | ARGUMENT; LETTERS, SONGS, [i]&c[/i]. | Faithfully and impartially collected; and digested in proper ORDER. | MANY OF WHICH | Have been industriously handed about by the GEN- | TLEMEN on both Sides of the Question; and | are now published by particular Desire. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for W. OWEN, near [i]Temple Bar[/i]; and | Sold by the Booksellers of [i]Oxford.[/i] 1753. | [Price Once Shilling.]

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Topical miscellany, Political miscellany, and Collection including prose

Format:

Octavo

Price:

1 s

Bibliographic details:

pp. 25-28 printed on blue paper.

Comments:

Contents: collection includes prose pp. 5-23, 63-4.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Advertisement, p. iii.

Related People

Publisher:

William Owen

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Friends and neighbours attend

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

Wenman and Dashwood for ever! Or, The Oxfordshire Garland. To be sung at Burford Races.

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First Line:

Freeholders appear

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pp.25-28

Poem Title:

A True Blue Song, upon True Blue Paper.

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First Line:

Freeholders appear

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pp.29-30

Poem Title:

The Ballad of Ballads: Or, A Fair Song upon Fair Paper.

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First Line:

Behold two brave Britons in Old England's cause

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pp.31-32

Poem Title:

A New Song.

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First Line:

Bravest lads that have so lately

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pp.32-33

Poem Title:

The English Freeholder.

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First Line:

A turner and a twister

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pp.34-35

Poem Title:

A New Dialogue Between A Turner and a Twister. To be sung to some Tune.

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First Line:

Come all you honest voters

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pp.36-37

Poem Title:

The Oxfordshire Voters Or the Old County Interest.

Attribution:

Made by an honest Freeholder.

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First Line:

Attend ye freeholders a brother's plain song

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pp.38-39

Poem Title:

A Song in Season.

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First Line:

Attend not Sir Ed-d the freeholders song

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pp.40-42

Poem Title:

A Song Not out of Season.

Attribution:

By one of the New Interest.

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First Line:

Adversity is very good

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p.42

Poem Title:

A Copy of Verses in praise of Adversity.

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First Line:

To canvas for the lord knows who

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

Boots and Shoes: Or, Advice to a Lady.

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First Line:

To please her peevish child nurse L--

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p.44

Poem Title:

The Nurse and the Child.

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First Line:

See but yesterday's knight how lordly he struts

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p.45

Poem Title:

The Jolly Brewer.

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First Line:

Whilst I strut like a lord like my buts I am full

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pp.46-48

Poem Title:

The Jolly Brewer's Reply To the Lean Friar.

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First Line:

God save great Marlborough's duke

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pp.48-49

Poem Title:

A New Song.

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First Line:

Rouse up great Marlborough

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pp.50-52

Poem Title:

Another New Song.

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First Line:

Agreed we change the male I'm grown

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pp.52-53

Poem Title:

The Double Metamorphosis. A Letter from Lord Sue to Lady Jemmy.

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First Line:

Well Susan now it is agreed

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pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Lord Sue without Breeches.

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First Line:

O spare me fair one or I die

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pp.54-55

Poem Title:

A Doleful Lamentation: On the Loss of a pair of Breeches belonging to the late Sir J-----s D---------d. Or, Lady Jemmy's Answer to her Fair Antagonist.

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First Line:

In Oxford fair county some folks make a rout

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pp.55-56

Poem Title:

A New Ballad. To the Tune of, The Women all tell me I'm false to my Lass.

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First Line:

Let's drink to those knights

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pp.56-58

Poem Title:

A Song. To the Tune of, Come let us prepare.

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First Line:

Come fill up your glasses all fill them yet higher

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pp.58-59

Poem Title:

An English Song.

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First Line:

Come and listen to my ditty

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pp.59-61

Poem Title:

A Good-enough Ballad, on a Bad-enough Subject: Or, The Benson Heroine well disciplin'd.

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First Line:

How blessed were my days when I spent them at cricket

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pp.61-63

Poem Title:

The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts. Number I. To be contiuned.

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