The town mistress, or, street-walker [T180615]

DMI number:

676

Publication Date:

1726

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T180615

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW115841814

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 3016

Full Title:

THE | TOWN MISTRESS | OR, | Street-Walker. | To which is added, | [i]The Spirit, or[/i] Cupid's [i]Apparition[/i] ; | [i]The Lover's Battle[/i] ; [i]Nature, or | Love uncontroul'd[/i] ; [/i]The Bottom- | less Pit[/i] ; [i]The Destiny of Love[/i] ; | [i]Unconstant Lover[/i] ; [i]Commodities | of the[/i] New Exchange. | WITH | Other LOVE-POEMS. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for A. MORE. near [i]Ludgate[/i]. M.DCC.XXVI. | (Price Six-Pence.)

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of erotic verse

Format:

Octavo

Price:

6 d.

Pagination:

[i], ii-vi, 1-27

Bibliographic details:

Octavo in fours. Reissue of T179611 (The Second Part of Pleasure for a Minute), with three new leaves at the start of the poem containing a new title page, contents, and the first poem (pp.[i]-6). Bodleian copy (Harding C 3016) has a large engraving pasted into the front cover, dated 1741, and entitled 'The Gascon punish'd or the Beau outwitted'. Engraving is by I. Simon. Reissue of Pleasure, pt 2 1723, with a new title-page and 3 leaves prefixed

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: Contents 1p.

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The second part of pleasure for a minute. [Part 2] [ESTC T179611]

Publication Date:

1723

ESTC No:

T179611

Volume:

None

Relationship:

Reissue

Comments:

Related People

Author:

A More

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

In Drury Lane you still may find

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p.iii

Poem Title:

The Town Mistress: Or, Street-Walker.

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First Line:

Upon a time as fame reports

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p.1-2

Poem Title:

The Spirit; Or, Cupid's Apparition.

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First Line:

To yonder grove let us retire

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pp.2-3

Poem Title:

The Lover's Retirement. To my Mistress.

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First Line:

When Celia's kind

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p.4

Poem Title:

A Love-Song.

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First Line:

Beauty and love once fell at odds

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

Love and Cupid.

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First Line:

Prithee take away the light

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pp.6-8

Poem Title:

The Lover's Battle.

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First Line:

She lay all naked on her bed

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pp.9-10

Poem Title:

The Vision of Pleasure.

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First Line:

Now conscience thou art fled and gone

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pp.11-12

Poem Title:

Nature; or, Love uncontroll'd.

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First Line:

A pit there is so wondrous deep

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pp.12-13

Poem Title:

The Bottomless Pit.

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First Line:

Virgins think on it and consider

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pp.12-13

Poem Title:

Advice to Caelia.

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First Line:

Well well 'tis true

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pp.14-15

Poem Title:

Beauty no more.

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First Line:

When first before bright Celia's feet I lay

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pp.16-17

Poem Title:

Strephon against himself.

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First Line:

I must confess I'm grown in love

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pp.17-18

Poem Title:

The Destiny of Love.

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First Line:

I never yet saw a lovely creature

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p.19

Poem Title:

The Modish Lover; or, the Unconstant.

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We'll go no more to the old exchange

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pp.20-24

Poem Title:

Commodities of the New-Exchange.

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The callico trade

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pp.24-27

Poem Title:

Naked Buff; or, the Down-fall of the Callicoes. A Song. To the Tune of Ye Ladies and Peers.

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