A new model for the rebuilding masonry on a stronger basis than the former [T107208]
- DMI number:
- 26
- Publication Date:
- 1730
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- T107208
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW113903548
- Shelfmark:
- BL 161.l.40
- Full Title:
- A | [i]NEW MODEL[/i] | For the REBUILDING | MASONRY | ON A | Stronger BASIS than the former; | WITH A | SOUND CONSTITUTION, and a curi- | ous CATECHISM drawn from Rules both | intelligible and insturctive; | In THREE DEGREES: | Teaching the | Whole World to be MASONS, without the Im- | putation of being either Fools or Knaves. | To which is added, | [i]Several diverting[/i] SONGS | BY | CELEBRATED MASONS | Of the [i]OLD ORDER[/i], | AND | Some new ones propos'd as Subjects for a certain Ora- | tor, with the Downfall of the Old Structure, a melan- | choly Poem addressed to MELPOMENE. | [rule] | By PETER FARMER Esq; | [rule] | [i]Dedicated to[/i] Mr. [i]Orator[/i] HENLEY. | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for J. WILFORD, at the [i]Three Flower-de-Luces[/i] behind | the [i]Chapter house[/i] near St. [i]Paul[/i]'s. 1730. (Price 6 [i]d.[i/]).
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Format:
- Octavo
- Price:
- 6 d.
- Pagination:
- [2], iii-vi, 7-32
- Bibliographic details:
- MS annotation on title page: Read Ian y 1776 . . . diverting [perhaps to read 'Read, I. an[no] y[e] 1776'?] FORMAT: Octavo in fours.
- Comments:
- MISCELLANY GENRE: collection of poems on masonry.
- Other matter:
- PREFATORY MATTER: Dedication to 'the Reverend Mr. Henley' pp. iii-vi; prose p. 7-8.
- Author:
- Peter Farmer
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dedicatee:
- John Henley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Ironic dedication
- Publisher:
- J Wilford
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- 'Printed for J. WILFORD at the Three Flower-de-Luces behind the Chapterhouse near St. Paul's. 1730.
- First Line:
- Are you a brother mason
- Page No:
- pp.8-11
- Poem Title:
- Enter'd Prentice's Degree
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Are you of the fellow craft
- Page No:
- pp.11-13
- Poem Title:
- Second degree, or Fellow-craft's part
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My friend if you a master be
- Page No:
- pp.13-16
- Poem Title:
- Master's Degree.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come let us prepare
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- Enter'd 'Prentice's Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus mighty eastern kings and some
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- The Master's Song
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As I at Wheeler's lodge one night
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- A new Song.
- Attribution:
- Composed by Mr. Moses Harris, late Member of the One Tun Lodge in Noble-Street
- Attributed To:
- Moses Harris
- First Line:
- Now the hungry lions roar
- Page No:
- pp.19-21
- Poem Title:
- The Fairies, Composed by Mr. Leveridge; to which is added the Free Mason's Chorus.
- Attribution:
- Composed by Mr. Leveridge
- Attributed To:
- Richard Leveridge
- First Line:
- Whilst masons guarded stand
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- The Masons Chorus
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I'm companion for lords and dukes are my friends
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- The following Song was made by a Country Attorney, on his being admitted a Mason.
- Attribution:
- By a Country Attorney
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Let malicious people censure
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- A Song made by a Mason, occasion'd by a Report, that they were guilty of Sodomitical Practices.
- Attribution:
- by a Mason
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- We have no idle prating
- Page No:
- pp.23-25
- Poem Title:
- The following Song was sung by a Son of Bacchus, a a Bacchanalian Banquet of Free Masons, and pass'd the Approbation of the late D. of W.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Lesbia once the happy she
- Page No:
- pp.26-27
- Poem Title:
- An Amourous Mason being offended with his Brother, for speaking so slightly of Love, swore, he that did not love a Love-Song was a Woman-hater; and modestly beg'd leave to sing two Love-Songs of his own making, and they were these.
- Attribution:
- An Amourous Mason
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As Colin to his sheep did hie
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By the same [i.e. 'Amourous Mason']
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What though they call us masons fools
- Page No:
- pp.28-29
- Poem Title:
- A merry Mason's Catch.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A doctor there is and whose name I could tell
- Page No:
- pp.29-31
- Poem Title:
- These Love-Songs pleas'd of the Society, who being a good Sports-man in the Field of Venus, voted that four Love-Songs should be sung every Meeting; and accordingly he sung the following, in Imitation of the Yorkshire Tale.
- Attribution:
- [a Mason]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Melpomine who guides the tongues
- Page No:
- pp.31-32
- Poem Title:
- A Melancholy Poem address'd to Melpomene, on the Downfall of Masonry.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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