A banquet of the muses: or, the miscellany of miscellanies. [T116738]

DMI number:

667

Publication Date:

1746

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T116738

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW124563594

Shelfmark:

BL 12314 ee.4.1-2

Full Title:

A | BANQUET [i]of the[/i] MUSES:| OR, THE | [i]Miscellany of Miscellanies[/i]| BEING A | COLLECTION | OF | Choice and Entertaining Subjects in Verse | and Prose, by the most eminent Authors. | Among which are the following Pieces, [i]viz[i/]. | [two columns] [col. 1]The Broken Mug, an Elegy. | The Kiss, &c. | The Old Cheese. | Caleb and Tabitha.| Epitaph on a Careless Couple. | Winter, a Poem. | Free-thinker converted. | The Two Rakes. | The Tea Table. | The English Padlock. | The Generous Turk. | The Female Volunteer.[/col. 1] [col. 2]The Penitent Rake. | The Skillet. | On Providence. | The City Wedding. | The City Wedding. | Story of Inkle and Yarico. |The Farmer and Monkey. | A Simile for the Ladies. | Corydon and Phillis. | Baucis and Philomon. | The Artful Wife. | A Pastoral Farce. | Fables, Epigrams, [i]&c.[/i][/col 2] Adorn'd with a Variety of Cuts. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]Jacob Bickerstaff,[/i] and sold by the | Booksellers in Town and Country. 1746.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[2], [5]-34, [1]-68.

Bibliographic details:

FORMAT: Octavo in fours. FACSIMILE: For some reason the ECCO facsimile differs in order from BL copy, even though BL copy is supposedly basis of facsimile, and the only one located on ESTC. The first part of the miscellany is a reissue of Pastorella:or, the Sylvan Muse (1746) ESTC T116739. Pagination and register restart folliwng p.34. A large section of this first part is published in 1787 as 'The Four Seasons of the Year: to which are added rural poems, and pastoral dialogues, imitated by Mr. Gay.' ESTC N18595. The title page gives the author as 'Bob Short': in ESTC this is identified as George Wright but 1746 publication of this version makes this unlikely.

Comments:

PLATES: frontispiece and plates facing, in first pagination, pp.[5], 11, 15, 18, 21, and in second pagination, pp.6, 8, 24, 33, 35, 41, 51, 57, 59, 65 Contents: prose, in second pagination, pp. 27-32; 39-40; 45-48; 54-56; 65-68.

References:

Case 453

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Title:

The Theatre of Wit [ESTC T116740] [ECCO]

Publication Date:

1746

ESTC No:

T116740

Volume:

None of 1

Relationship:

Another Edition of

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Jacob Bickerstaff

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Ah envious hour unpleasant to my ear

Page No:

pp.31-34

Poem Title:

The Youth Reclaim'd; or Nine o'Clock: A Poem.

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First Line:

As Damon happiest of the sylvan train

Page No:

pp.30-32

Poem Title:

Fourth Dialogue.

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First Line:

Aspiring Phoebus who alone can warm

Page No:

pp.5-10

Poem Title:

Spring.

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First Line:

Just over the eastern hills the blushing morn

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pp.21-24

Poem Title:

First Dialogue.

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First Line:

No more the glories of the bloomimg spring

Page No:

pp.15-17

Poem Title:

Autumn.

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First Line:

Now winter comes prone over the barren plains

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pp.18-20

Poem Title:

Winter.

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First Line:

The advancing summer now demands my lay

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pp.11-14

Poem Title:

Summer.

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First Line:

The sun now mounting to the noon of day

Page No:

pp.25-27

Poem Title:

Second Dialogue. The Loiterers.

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First Line:

Two swains beneath the covert of a rock

Page No:

pp.27-29

Poem Title:

Third Dialogue. The Ditty.

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First Line:

How shall I now the nine invoke

Page No:

pp.1-5

Poem Title:

The Broken Mug, An Elegy

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First Line:

As John the sailor and his lass

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

The Kiss, and Kiss Return'd

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First Line:

Young Slouch the farmer had a jolly wife

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pp.7-8

Poem Title:

The Old Cheese, Or, Slouch's Request.

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First Line:

Beneath the shadow of a beaver hat

Page No:

pp.9-12

Poem Title:

The Espousal. A Dialogue

Attribution:

By Mr. Gay

Attributed To:

John Gay

First Line:

Interred beneath this marble stone

Page No:

pp.13-14

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a Careless Couple

Attribution:

Epigraph: Stet quicunque volet potens | Aulae culmine lubrico, &c.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Now frowning winter knits his awful brow

Page No:

pp.15-16

Poem Title:

Winter. A Poem.

Attribution:

By Mr. Philips

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First Line:

Friar Paul in his cell made his exit of late

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

The Disappointed Friar

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First Line:

One of the contradicting sex

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

The Dispute Ended, Or, Contradiction Rewarded. A Fable.

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First Line:

Young Strephon working hard all day

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

The Double Entendre. An Epigram.

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First Line:

Sir Fopling crossed in love and stripped at play

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

The Freethinker converted.

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First Line:

Freeman and Wild two hot young gallants

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

The two Rakes, a Tale, from de la Fontain.

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First Line:

Now hardly here and there an hackney coach

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

A humourous Description of a Morning in London.

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First Line:

Richard of the green grown old and very poor

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

Resignation a Virtue.

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First Line:

A poor man once a judge besought

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

Law, a bottomless Pit, or, the Folly of feeing Counsel. Where Two claim the same Right. An Epigram.

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First Line:

Deaf giddy helpless left alone

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p.22

Poem Title:

An Epigram Said to be written by D. Swift, on his own Deafness

Attribution:

Said to be written by D. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

O gentle muse my artless theme inspire

Page No:

pp.23-24

Poem Title:

The Tea-Table. Imitated from Dean Swift.

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First Line:

Miss Danae when fair and young

Page No:

pp.25-27

Poem Title:

The English Padlock. An Address to the Ladies.

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First Line:

Fortune makes wretched human things her sport

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Curse on all cowards say I why bless my eyes

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

The Female Volunteer. An Epilogue, Design'd to be spoken by Mrs. Woffington, in the Character of a Volunteer.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Tom Ramble a rake of true catholic hope

Page No:

pp.35-36

Poem Title:

The Penitent Rake. A Tale.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman of Oxford

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Not attributed

First Line:

Two country louts tired of a single life

Page No:

pp.37-38

Poem Title:

The Skillet: Or, Beauty is the best Prize

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First Line:

When at our house the servants brawl

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

A Simile.

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First Line:

I tell thee Dick where I have been

Page No:

pp.41-44

Poem Title:

The City Wedding

Attribution:

By Sir John Suckling

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

By birth I'm a slave yet can give you a crown

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

Aenigma

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

One day an honest farmer went

Page No:

pp.49-52

Poem Title:

The Farmer and the Monkey. A Tale.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Celia and I the other day

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

A Simile For The Ladies

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Not attributed

First Line:

As after storms the sun more bright appears

Page No:

p.56

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Now the keen rigour of the winter's over

Page No:

pp.57-58

Poem Title:

Corydon And Phillis. A Town Eclogue.

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First Line:

In ancient times as story tells

Page No:

pp.59-64

Poem Title:

The Two Hermets Progress; or, The Metamorphes of Baucis, and Philemon.

Attribution:

By D. Swift

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

As Chloe came into the room the other day

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

A Receipt to appease an Angry Husband. To the Ladies.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Ten months after Florimel happened to wed

Page No:

p.64

Poem Title:

Advice to Married Men.

Attribution:

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