Miscellanies. The last volume [T204336] [ECCO]

DMI number:

595

Publication Date:

1732

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T204336

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW116169257

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

MISCELLANIES. | [rule] | THE | LAST VOLUME. | [rule] | [ornament] | [rule] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for B. MOTTE, at the [i]Middle | Temple Gate Fleet-Street[/i]. 1732.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Comments:

MISCELLANY GENRE: Collection of satirical verse associated with Pope and Swift. CONTENTS: Preface pp.[iii]-xvi; 'Treatise of the Art of Sinking in Poetry' pp.[4]-86; 'Contents' to the foregoing treatise (2pp.); collection of 'Miscellanies in Verse' pp.[90]-434; contents (4pp.); advertisement for books sold by Motte (2pp.). NOTES: Preface is signed 'Jonath. Swift. Alex. Pope.' and dated 'Twickenham, May 27, 1727'.

References:

Teerink-Scouten 25(3a–d) and the bibliographical notes in E. L. Steeves, 'The art of sinking in poetry: a critical edition', New York (1952) (facs). Case 344(3)(a).

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Author:

Jonathan Swift

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Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'By Jonathan Swift' (ESTC).

Publisher:

Benjamin Motte

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Absolute (100%)

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The shepherds and the nymphs were seen

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pp.91-140

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Cadenus and Vanessa. Written Anno 1713.

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In ancient times as story tells

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pp.141-151

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Baucis and Philemon. Imitated from the Eighth Book of Ovid.

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Careful observers may foretell the hour

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pp.152-156

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A Description of a City Shower. In Imitation of Virgil's Georgics.

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Now hardly here and there an hackney coach

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pp.157-158

Poem Title:

A Description of the Morning.

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Harley the nation's great support

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pp.159-168

Poem Title:

Horace, Epistle VII. Book I. Imitated, and Addressed to the Earl of Oxford. In the Year 1713.

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I often wished that I had clear

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pp.169-176

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Horace, Lib.2. Sat.6. Part of it imitated.

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Parson these things in thy possessing

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pp.177-178

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The Happy Life of a Country Parson. In Imitation of Martial.

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Women tho nat sans leacherie

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pp.179-180

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A Tale of Chaucer. Lately found in an old Manuscript.

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In every town where Thamis rolls his tide

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pp.181-185

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The Alley. An Imitation of Spencer [sic].

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In Yorkshire dwelt a sober yeoman

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pp.186-188

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The Capon's Tale. To A Lady who father'd her Lampoons upon her Acquaintance.

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Peruse my leaves through every part

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pp.189-190

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Verses Wrote on a Lady's Ivory Table-Book.

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Humbly sheweth | That I went to warm my self in Lady Betty's chamber because I was cold

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pp.191-198

Poem Title:

To Their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve, and die a Maid if it miscarries.

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Once on a time as old stories rehearse

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pp.199-201

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Lady B--- B--- finding in the Author's Room some Verses unfinished, underwrit a Stanza of her own, with Raillery upon him, which gave Occasion to this Ballad.

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In times of old when time was young

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pp.202-209

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V------'s House, Built from the Ruins of Whitehall that was burnt.

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When Mother Clud had rose from play

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pp.210-212

Poem Title:

The History of V-----'s House.

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The rod was but a harmless wand

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pp.213-218

Poem Title:

The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician's Rod.

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Atlas we read in ancient song

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pp.219-220

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Atlas: or, the Minister of State. To the Lord Treasurer Oxford.

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As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are

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pp.221-225

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The Description of a Salamander. Out of Pliny's Nat. Hist. lib. 10. c. 67 & lib. 29. c. 4.

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Ere bribes convince you whom to choose

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pp.226-228

Poem Title:

The Elephant: or, the Parliament Man. Written many Years since. Taken from Coke's Institutes.

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Well tis as Bickerstaff has guessed

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pp.229-234

Poem Title:

An Elegy On the supposed Death of Partridge the Almanack-Maker.

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Here five foot deep lies on his back

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p.235

Poem Title:

The Epitaph.

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Some Colinaeus praise some Bleau

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pp.236-238

Poem Title:

Verses To be prefixed before Bernard Lintot's New Miscellany.

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How much egregious Moore are we

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pp.239-241

Poem Title:

To Mr. John Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder.

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Jove called before him the other day

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pp.242-247

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Verses Occasioned by an &c. at the End of Mr. D'Urfey's Name in the Title to one of his Plays.

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Grown old in rhyme twere barbarous to discard

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pp.248-249

Poem Title:

Prologue Designed for Mr. Durfy's last Play.

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Authors are judged by strange capricious rules

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pp.250-252

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Prologue. To the Three Hours after Marriage.

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Ye lords and commons men of wit

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pp.253-258

Poem Title:

Sandys's Ghost: or, a Proper New Ballad On the New Ovid's Metamorphosis: As it was intended to be Translated by Persons of Quality.

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Close to the best known author Umbra sits

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p.259

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Umbra.

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If meagre Gildon draws his venal quill

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pp.260-264

Poem Title:

Fragment of a Satire.

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When simple Macer now of high renown

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pp.265-266

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Macer.

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Sylvia my heart in wondrous wise alarmed

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pp.267-268

Poem Title:

Sylvia. A Fragment.

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Though Artimesia talks by fits

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pp.269-270

Poem Title:

Artimesia.

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Phryne had talents for mankind

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pp.271-272

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Phryne.

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When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat

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p.273

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On Mrs. Biddy Floyd.

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Phoebus now shortening every shade

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pp.274-278

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Apollo Outwitted. To the Honourable Mrs. Finch, under her Name of Ardelia.

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Stella this day is thirty four

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pp.279-280

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. 1718.

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All travellers at first incline

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pp.281-284

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. 1720.

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Resolved my annual verse to pay

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pp.285-289

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. A great Bottle of Wine, long buried, being that Day dug up. 1722.

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As when a beauteous nymph decays

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pp.290-293

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. 1724.

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Oh be thou blessed with all that heaven can send

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pp.294-295

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To Mrs. M.B. Sent on her Birth-Day. June 15.

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I said to my heart between sleeping and waking

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pp.296-297

Poem Title:

Song.

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By a Person of Quality.

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Of all the girls that ever were seen

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pp.298-301

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Ballad.

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The longitude missed on

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pp.302-303

Poem Title:

Ode for Musick. On the Longitude.

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So bright is thy beauty so charming thy song

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p.304

Poem Title:

On Mrs. T---s.

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Strange all this difference should be

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p.304

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Epigram on the Feuds about Handel and Bononcini.

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Two or three visits and two or three bows

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p.305

Poem Title:

Two or Three: or, a Receipt to make a Cuckold.

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While maudlin whigs deplored their Cato's fate

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p.306

Poem Title:

On a Lady who P--st at the Tragedy of Cato; Occasioned by an Epigram on a Lady who wept at it.

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When Israel's daughters mourned their past offences

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p.307

Poem Title:

Epigram in a Maid of Honour's Prayer-Book.

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As Thomas was cudgelled one day by his wife

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p.308

Poem Title:

Epigram.

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Now Europe's balanced neither side prevails

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p.308

Poem Title:

The Balance of Europe.

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Disdain not Snow my humble verse to hear

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pp.309-313

Poem Title:

A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldsmith, near Temple-Bar; Occasioned by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subscriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thousand per Cent.

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Ye wise philosophers explain

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pp.314-325

Poem Title:

The South-Sea. 1721.

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When as corruption hence did go

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pp.326-330

Poem Title:

A Ballad on Quadrille.

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Says my uncle I pray you discover

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pp.331-334

Poem Title:

Molly Mog: or, the Fair Maid of the Inn.

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My passion is as mustard strong

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pp.335-340

Poem Title:

A New Song of New Similies.

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Ye gallants of Newgate whose fingers are nice

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pp.341-345

Poem Title:

Newgate's Garland: Being a New Ballad, Shewing How Mr. Jonathan Wild's Throat was cut from Ear to Ear with a Penknife, by Mr. Blake alias Blueskin, the bold Highwayman, as he stood at his Tryal in the Old Bailey, 1725.

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When first the squire and tinker Wood

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pp.346-350

Poem Title:

Prometheus. On Wood the Patentee's Irish Half-Pence.

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With every lady in the land

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pp.351-352

Poem Title:

Strephon and Flavia.

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This day the year I dare not tell

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pp.353-355

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Corinna.

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How vain are mortal man's endeavours

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pp.356-359

Poem Title:

The Quidnuncki's: A Tale. Occasioned by the Death of the Duke Regent of France.

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In fable all things hold discourse

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pp.360-362

Poem Title:

Ay and No: A Fable.

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Desponding Phyllis was endued

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pp.363-368

Poem Title:

Phillis [sic]: or, the Progress of Love.

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The farmer's goose who in the stubble

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pp.369-371

Poem Title:

The Progress of Poetry.

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When first Diana leaves her bed

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pp.372-378

Poem Title:

The Progress of Beauty.

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From Venus born thy beauty shows

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pp.379-384

Poem Title:

Pethox the Great.

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Soon as Glumdalclitch missed her pleasing care

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pp.385-389

Poem Title:

The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch For the Loss of Grildrig. A Pastoral.

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Welcome thrice welcome to thy native place

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pp.390-396

Poem Title:

Mary Gulliver to Capt. Lemuel Gulliver.

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In amaze

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pp.397-400

Poem Title:

To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain. A Lilliputian Ode.

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Echo I ween will in the woods reply

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pp.401-404

Poem Title:

A Gentle Echo on Woman. In the Dorick Manner.

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Who dares affirm this is no pious age

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pp.405-407

Poem Title:

Epilogue to a Play, For the Benefit of the Weavers in Ireland.

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Beneath this verdant hillock lies

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p.408

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Miser.

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As when a lofty pile is raised

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pp.409-417

Poem Title:

To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed his Poems.

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Those dreams that on the silent night intrude

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pp.418-420

Poem Title:

On Dreams. An Imitation of Petronius.

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Pallas observing Stella's wit

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pp.421-428

Poem Title:

To Stella, Visiting me in my Sickness, Oct. 1727.

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This day whatever the fates decree

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pp.429-434

Poem Title:

Stella's Birth-Day. March 13. 1726/7.

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