Fables and other Short Poems

DMI number:

54

Publication Date:

1731

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

??

EEBO/ECCO link:

??

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

0

Comments:

Fables, and other Short Poems; Collected from the most Celebrated English Authors. The Whole curiously Engrav'd, for the Practise & Amusement of Young Gentlemen & Ladies, in the Art of Writing Vet A4 e.2385 I'm not sure the CBEL or ESTC records are quite right for this; they refer to a 3 vol work, but Vet A. 4 e 2385 seems to be a single volume; it seems likely that the engraved plates were re-used for later editions (?1737); ESTC record refers to 'a hundred copper plates' - this vol has only 32. Engraved plates; engravings only on recto side; some have pictures. poems - ff. 2-28. f. 2 'On the Beauty of Fable extracted from the Spectator, by way of Preface' f. 5. 'Moral Sentences' (two line couplets) ff. 29-32 a range of alphabets and practise sentences.

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Editor:

John Bickham

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Confident (50%)

Comments:

'By Jn Bickham'.

Engraver:

George Bickham

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Confident (50%)

Comments:

'Engrav'd by G. Bickham'.

Printer:

Thomas Cobb

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Confident (50%)

Comments:

'Printed & Sold by Thos Cobb (who Married ye Widow of Mr. John Cluer) at ye Printing Office in Bow Church Yard, London, where may be had Copy-Books of Round-Hand, with Copys at ye Top to write after.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Long lived a swain in high renown

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f. 3-f. 4

Poem Title:

The Philosopher and Shepherd

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First Line:

A tiger in pursuit of prey

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f.6

Poem Title:

The Lyon, the Tyger, & the Traveller

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First Line:

Delays are dangerous take a friend's advice

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f. 7

Poem Title:

Moral Precepts [II]

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Let modest silence be your chiefest care

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f. 7

Poem Title:

Moral Precepts [III]

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First Line:

Quickly lay hold of time while in your power

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f. 7

Poem Title:

Moral Precepts [I]

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First Line:

Fast to an elm a lamb was tied

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f. 8

Poem Title:

The Wild Boar and the Ram

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First Line:

Oh liberty thou goddess heavenly bright

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f. 9

Poem Title:

On Liberty

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First Line:

Poor little pretty fluttering thing

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f. 9

Poem Title:

Adrian's address to his departing soul.

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Imitated by Mr. Prior

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First Line:

A spaniel very pert and gay

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f. 10

Poem Title:

The Spaniel & the Camelion

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First Line:

Great was that genius most sublime that thought

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f. 11

Poem Title:

On the Invention of Writing

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First Line:

When Cupid did his grandsire Jove intreat

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f. 11

Poem Title:

To Mrs Biddy Floyd

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First Line:

As Jove his lower world surveyed

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f. 12

Poem Title:

The Eagle, & the Assembly of Animals

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First Line:

This commoner has worth and parts

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f. 13

Poem Title:

The Malecontents; or the Moral to the Ladle.

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By Mr. Prior

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Matthew Prior

First Line:

The miser starts and trembling stares

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f. 14

Poem Title:

The Miser and Plutus

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First Line:

Virtue's a native rectitude of mind

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f. 15

Poem Title:

The Difference between Vertue and Vice

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First Line:

As a young rake repentant sat

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f. 16

Poem Title:

The Universal Apparition

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First Line:

Our brawny clowns of old who turned the soil

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f. 17

Poem Title:

A Description of the Antient Rustical Entertainments of the Romans

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First Line:

As Chloe with affected air

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f. 18

Poem Title:

The Lady and the Wasp

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Her faultless form no secret stains disgrace

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f. 19

Poem Title:

The Character of a Beauty

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First Line:

She practised here so much that when she sprung

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f. 19

Poem Title:

The Character of a Religious Lady

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First Line:

A feeble fox with age decayed

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p.20

Poem Title:

The Fox at the Point of Death

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First Line:

Some from the stranded vessel force their way

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f. 21

Poem Title:

Variety of Deaths.

Attribution:

Extracted from an Ode of Mr. Prior's

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Matthew Prior

First Line:

Two formal owls with pride elate

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f. 22

Poem Title:

Two Owls, & the Sparrow

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First Line:

Dear Thomas didst thou never pop

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f. 23

Poem Title:

[no title]

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By Mr Prior

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Matthew Prior

First Line:

A lion sick of pomp made known

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f. 24

Poem Title:

The Lyon, the Fox, & the Geese

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First Line:

Now hardly here and there an hackney coach

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f. 25

Poem Title:

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First Line:

With weeping eyes a nurse surveyed

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f. 26

Poem Title:

The Mother, the Nurse and the Fairy

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First Line:

As after noon one summer's day

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f. 27

Poem Title:

Cupid Mistaken

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First Line:

A fowler's dog with curious eye

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f. 28

Poem Title:

The Setting Dog, & the Partridge

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