Select epigrams of Martial [ECCO] [N21209]
- DMI number:
- 965
- Publication Date:
- 1755
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- N21209
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW112746601
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - British Library (Bod copy?)
- Full Title:
- SELECT | EPIGRAMS | OF | MARTIAL. | TRANSLATED and IMITATED | By WILLIAM HAY, Esq; | WITH | An APPENDIX | Of some by COWLEY, and other Hands. | [ornament] | LONDON: | Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall. | [rule] | MDCCLV.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse, Miscellany dominated by poet, and Collection of translations/imitations
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- Contents: translations and imitations by Hay, pp. 1-107; Appendix containing translations and imitations by other writers, pp. 109-119.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: Prose preface pp.[iii]-vi; Advertisement [1p.]; Errata [1p.]; Back matter: Index [15pp.]
- Publisher:
- James Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Imprint reads: "Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall"
- Publisher:
- Robert Dodsley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Why in Pall-Mall with Dodsley will you dwell
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- Epigram IV. To his Book.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- That you like Thrasea or like Cato great
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- Ep. IX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Thou whom if faith or honour recommends
- Page No:
- pp.2-3
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- To lady Mary Belair makes addresses
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When the chaste Arria drew the reeking sword
- Page No:
- p.2
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The hand which struck the servant for the king
- Page No:
- p.3
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your book Sir George now give to public use
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Fraternal love in such strong currents runs
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Her father dead alone no grief she knows
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Is there a friend like those distinguished few
- Page No:
- p.4
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XL.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When Porcia was informed her lord was dead
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You ask me dear friend what lass I'd enjoy
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You whom your faithful friends surround
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Whilst Milton's read or silver Thames shall run
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Sir Formal's house adjoining stands
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your powdered nose you thrust in every ear
- Page No:
- pp.7-8
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XC.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your wife's the plainest piece a man can see
- Page No:
- p.7
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When some time since you had not clear
- Page No:
- p.8
- Poem Title:
- Ep. C.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- May I not live but were it in my power
- Page No:
- pp.9-10
- Poem Title:
- Ep. V.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You say you nothing owe and so I say
- Page No:
- p.9
- Poem Title:
- Epigram III.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- See you the cloud on yonder mortal's face
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Vainlove is ill his illness is his bed
- Page No:
- p.10
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I haunt your table led by my ill star
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When twenty pounds I'd borrow of a friend
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Will and I differ who so great as will
- Page No:
- p.11
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Still in your mouth and at your fingers ends
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You sweep my table sausages and chine
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The scrivener who of late so rich is grown
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Wine and good fare and my own person nice
- Page No:
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Nothing I see your candour can exceed
- Page No:
- pp.14-15
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Sometimes a lawyer sometimes a divine
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Why seem you dead to all the joys of life
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You're fine and ridicule my threadbare gown
- Page No:
- p.14
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- My epigrams are long in your conceit
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- What place to keep your ice in I approve
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- What trains before what trains behind him ride
- Page No:
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Himself he slew when he the foe would fly
- Page No:
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I own in manors you have large command
- Page No:
- pp.17-18
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your father gave you a large monthly pay
- Page No:
- p.17
- Poem Title:
- Epigram X.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- A To town what cause or rather what ill star
- Page No:
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You come away flies every mother's son
- Page No:
- pp.18-19
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- How often do you ask me to go down
- Page No:
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Alike great Pompey and sage Tully bled
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Me as a friend to supper you invite
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Tis a meer nothing that you ask you cry
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Upon rich liveries no expense you spare
- Page No:
- p.20
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You're a fine man as all the world agree
- Page No:
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Twas from a spout which pours into the street
- Page No:
- p.22
- Poem Title:
- Epigram XVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Selius asserts there is no providence
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Ten thousand pounds in bank and South Sea funds
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The bee enclosed and through the amber shown
- Page No:
- p.23
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Wrought graved embossed of old and modern date
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Vesuvius this so lately crowned with vines
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You whom your country's honours high do raise
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Rich presents to old men and widows sent
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your life has ever in the country been
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Jack's father's dead and left him without hope
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When on time's precipice Alworthy stood
- Page No:
- pp.26-27
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- With the best wines of France you entertain
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You ask me for my books of poems still
- Page No:
- p.26
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Blessed in thy spirit in thy husband blessed
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I never did the gods importune
- Page No:
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Thrice twenty years you've seen your grass made hay
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Nothing more insolent than you in place
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You still were welcome at my country seat
- Page No:
- p.28
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I am I own and ever have been poor
- Page No:
- p.29
- Poem Title:
- Epigram XIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Nell's teeth are white but Betty's teeth are brown
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Thieves may break locks and with your cash retire'
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- To the best character he can't afford
- Page No:
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Ned swears he never sups at home then Ned
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You on one great concern your thoughts employ
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your favours to me I remember well
- Page No:
- p.31
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Snarl on you never shall your purpose gain
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Who is that beau pray tell me for you know
- Page No:
- p.32
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I often bow your hat you never stir
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Often you ask solicitous as Bayes
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Pompey's dead sons Europe and Asia have
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The king of Pontus drinking poison still
- Page No:
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Welsh judges two four military men
- Page No:
- p.34
- Poem Title:
- Epigram VIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- My cause concerns not battery nor treason
- Page No:
- pp.35-36
- Poem Title:
- XIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Our friend who lately captive died in Spain
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Where is there now a Pylades you cry
- Page No:
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Let me exhort you who my neighbour are
- Page No:
- pp.36-37
- Poem Title:
- XXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Thou true descendant of a worthy sire
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- XXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You bid me take the freedom of a friend
- Page No:
- p.36
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Less by his birth than by his merit known
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVIII. XXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Tis a strange thing but tis a thing well known
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- XXXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Whilst doubtful was the chance of civil war
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- XXXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- While you at Bath indulge each happy day
- Page No:
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- XLIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- If I judge right our good old friend Sir John
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- What in long verse write epigrams say you
- Page No:
- p.39
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- If at threescore he lawyer do commence
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- Ep. IX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You ask me why I have no verses sent
- Page No:
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- Epigram III.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- In all the epigrams you write we trace
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Jack and Tom haunt each bawdy house in town
- Page No:
- p.41
- Poem Title:
- Ep. X.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Soon may your new cut coppices revive
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Surely Sir John you must have been in liquor
- Page No:
- p.42
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- His lordship's mornings were in hurry spent
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- If I by chance a pullet have with egg
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The kindest thing of all is to comply
- Page No:
- p.43
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I understand to send me you design
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- O doctor learned as ever filled a chair
- Page No:
- pp.44-45
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- See your great friend Caesonius who is gone
- Page No:
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- All the great men take you away
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- LXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- For twice ten years you to the hall resort
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You purchase everything which makes it plain
- Page No:
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- XCVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- In leathern jack to drink much less I hate
- Page No:
- pp.46-47
- Poem Title:
- Ep. VI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You give so many girls a ring
- Page No:
- p.46
- Poem Title:
- Epigram V.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- A fortune take for better and for worse
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- His lordship bought his last gay birthday dress
- Page No:
- p.47
- Poem Title:
- Ep. X.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- In epigram so happy is your strain
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You said ten guineas when your cause was done
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your oranges and myrtles with what cost
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Both man and wife as bad as bad can be
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When Cinna to be poor pretends
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You hope in distichs brevity may please
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You make two hundred verses in a trice
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You take me for a glutton and a sinner
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You're rich and old to you they presents send
- Page No:
- p.49
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Presents to living friends may have an eye
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You gave Jack up his judgment and his bond
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You're sorry you forgot to send you say
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Five wives hath he dispatched she husbands five
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Tis late begin to live old gentleman
- Page No:
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Since never was an age so happy yet
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- So very fair and yet so very common
- Page No:
- p.52
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- See you that fellow with a hardened front
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You as my guest appear when tis not one
- Page No:
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- He who hath seen the gardens at Versailles
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A doctor lately was a captain made
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The ancients all your veneration have
- Page No:
- p.54
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Tom about one was from the tavern come
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- All the companions of her grace I'm told
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Tell me say you and tell me without fear
- Page No:
- p.55
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- What do you think is lady Betty's oath
- Page No:
- p.56
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Since your return from Rome I five days went
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Ep. VIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- That you would wed Sir John is very wise
- Page No:
- p.57
- Poem Title:
- Epigram VI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Chloe her seven dead husbands to lament
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Not in his will who from you used to clear
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- Ep. X.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Since you abroad love to fare plentifully
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- This honest friend that you so much admire
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your verses on my lord mayor's coach declare
- Page No:
- p.58
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Perhaps you think more riches I desire
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- XXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When late his grace at Naples did expire
- Page No:
- p.59
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- By all that's good and sacred you do swear
- Page No:
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- By these stale arts a dinner you pursue
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- He still is building patches up a door
- Page No:
- p.60
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I am no genius you affirm and why
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- This is that coat so often by me sung
- Page No:
- p.61
- Poem Title:
- L.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Believing hear what you deserve to hear
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- If a mewed quail by accident I had
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- LV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When I would send such trifles as I can
- Page No:
- p.62
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Vainlove the live-long day strolls up and down
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- LX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When Christmas turkeys round in presents flew
- Page No:
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Oh degenerate age great Tully cried
- Page No:
- p.64
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Who with your teeth the stretching leather drew
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- My works the reader and the hearer praise
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- True spoke the conjuror when he foretold
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When I am half seas over and cannot read
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your spouse who husbands dear hath buried seven
- Page No:
- p.65
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Bob's name was booby now tis Bou-ou-bee
- Page No:
- pp.66-67
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- More ease than masters servants lives afford
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- What blessed assurance when my doctor thought
- Page No:
- p.66
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- A quack who stole his patient's cup did cry
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Bursting with envy is a wretch unknown
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Pray don't imagine without reason
- Page No:
- p.67
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- My book a better traveller I send
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- Ep. CI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Whence so much likeness so much sweetness grew
- Page No:
- p.68
- Poem Title:
- CV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The verses in this book too soon took air
- Page No:
- pp.69-70
- Poem Title:
- Epigram II.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The porter's joke the chairman's low conceit
- Page No:
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- Ep. III.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Who reads of Oedipus or Scylla now
- Page No:
- pp.70-71
- Poem Title:
- Ep. IV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Although your berlin always moves in state
- Page No:
- pp.71-72
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Me would the widow wed she's old say I
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- Ep. VIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Pirithous his name you oft repeat
- Page No:
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- No dinners presents he is no man's bail
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- What pleasure is it that your writings are
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You say I have no better friend than you
- Page No:
- p.72
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Blessed with the morals of a former age
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- His lordship is arrived at seventy-five
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- This picture see on which no cost I spare
- Page No:
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXII.
- Attribution:
- Hay, William [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- All the worst cider Hereford can make
- Page No:
- p.74
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Twice seven years and one above it
- Page No:
- p.74
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Do you an India Voyage then design
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Seven wives and in one grave there is not found
- Page No:
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The clock strikes two now every powdered spark
- Page No:
- pp.75-76
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Hay, William [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Now the gay hours to meet the Pleiads run
- Page No:
- pp.76-78
- Poem Title:
- LI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Thou monarch of eight parts of speech
- Page No:
- p.77
- Poem Title:
- LXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- By this small stone as great remains are hid
- Page No:
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- LXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- That scarce a piece I publish in a year
- Page No:
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Oh fortune is your justice lost
- Page No:
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Tired with the town too much of life I've spent
- Page No:
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- At Chenevix poor little master cries
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Four miles from town his lordship's buildings stand
- Page No:
- p.80
- Poem Title:
- LXXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- If your affairs my diligence could mend
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- A worn out sailor charmed with Deptford strand
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Could witty Rochester return again
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- Ep. CI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Fool that you are to mix your verse with mine
- Page No:
- p.81
- Poem Title:
- Ep. C.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- My friends who round mount Caburn do abide
- Page No:
- p.82
- Poem Title:
- Ep. CIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Whither ah whither idle muse
- Page No:
- pp.83-84
- Poem Title:
- Epigram I.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Thou Atreus of a cucumber
- Page No:
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Jack buys an ancient cottage dismal foul
- Page No:
- p.85
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- That I your invitation should decline
- Page No:
- p.85
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You were for ever by my infant side
- Page No:
- pp.85-86
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XL.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Childless and rich and born in Charles's reign
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Ned prays that heaven may you with issue bless
- Page No:
- p.86
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When you too stoically scorn the grave
- Page No:
- pp.86-87
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Six rings on every finger Vainlove keeps
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You an informer are and a back-biter
- Page No:
- pp.87-88
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- An ensign's post you ask and that's denied
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- At Bristol Tom from the mayor's feast was led
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- From Kew to town four hours I spent you rail
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Ten pounds I owe you call for in a pet
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You nothing give me now when you expire
- Page No:
- p.88
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Gratis your house old bachelors frequent
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- He says not right who says that you are evil
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You who wish not to die before your hour
- Page No:
- p.89
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Poor poet Dogrel's house consumed by fire
- Page No:
- p.90
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The leaves all soiled some turned the corners worn
- Page No:
- p.90
- Poem Title:
- Ep. CVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- He fawns for more though he his thousands touch
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- Ep. X.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Her years if numbered by her hairs I ween
- Page No:
- p.91
- Poem Title:
- Epigram VII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Dear squire take my advice your hunter spare
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- In midnight cups you grant all we propose
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Rich men my friend by anger know to thrive
- Page No:
- p.92
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your fever still attends you though you grieve
- Page No:
- pp.92-93
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- While you perhaps now crowd through Temple bar
- Page No:
- p.93
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- That you were born and ever since have lived
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You lately were enquiring why Silvester
- Page No:
- p.94
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- How pleasant is this one horse chair
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- If I want money you have none you cry
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Your hair and teeth you're are not ashamed to buy
- Page No:
- p.95
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- She ravished was by highwaymen she cries
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When in your borough you yourself bestir
- Page No:
- p.96
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I drink a pint a gallon you for shame
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- This grove these fountains tonsile Linden's shade
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Tom never drinks that I should much commend
- Page No:
- p.97
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- We two in fair and in foul weather
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Free from reserve you would to me appear
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Though you bestow upon a man of worth
- Page No:
- p.98
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XXXVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- As common fare when sausages and chine
- Page No:
- pp.99-100
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- I praise your doggerel verse believe your lie
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XL.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When scribbler makes us for his verse subscribe
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- When to secure your bald pate from the weather
- Page No:
- p.99
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- None equal you in trees for ever green
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- Ep. L.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Thou master of Tete de Mouton
- Page No:
- p.100
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLIX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Why to a homely cottage I retire
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Wonder you Meanwell is so often bit
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Hail Taffi's day on which my race begun
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- O Grub Street famed for dying speech
- Page No:
- pp.103-104
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You dread my verse and sting of wit
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- A little farm you purchase near the town
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Thou morning client this is my retreat
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Tom had a lad lame with a broken thigh
- Page No:
- p.104
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXX.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Though ships from China bring you cup and jar
- Page No:
- p.105
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- While Spintext in his sermon long and loud
- Page No:
- pp.105-106
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXVII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- To breakfast if to Ranelagh you stray
- Page No:
- p.106
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXXXIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Wealthy was of a fever like to die
- Page No:
- p.106
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCI.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- My lady modish doth this way devise
- Page No:
- p.107
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCIV.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- The spice clothes plate and jewels which each day
- Page No:
- p.107
- Poem Title:
- Ep. CII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- What would I do the question you repeat
- Page No:
- p.107
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCIII.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- You say your nose and eyes your father's are
- Page No:
- p.107
- Poem Title:
- Ep. C.
- Attribution:
- William Hay [from title page]
- Attributed To:
- William Hay
- First Line:
- Why dost thou come great censor of the age
- Page No:
- p.109
- Poem Title:
- Epigram I.
- Attribution:
- Spectator, No 446.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Well then Sir you shall know how far extend
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVI.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Let Rufus weep rejoice stand sit or walk
- Page No:
- p.110
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXIX.
- Attribution:
- Spectator, No. 113.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As oft Sir Treadwell as we meet
- Page No:
- pp.110-111
- Poem Title:
- Ep. CXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Oldham.
- Attributed To:
- John Oldham
- First Line:
- That I do you with humble bows no more
- Page No:
- pp.112-113
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LXVIII.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Would you be free tis your chief wish you say
- Page No:
- p.112
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LIII.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Wonder not sir you who instruct the town
- Page No:
- pp.113-114
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XC.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Honest and poor faithful in word and thought
- Page No:
- p.114
- Poem Title:
- Ep. V.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- If dearest friend it my good fate might be
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XX.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Whilst in the dark on thy soft hand I hung
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- Ep. CI.
- Attribution:
- Spectator, No. 52.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Tomorrow you will live you always cry
- Page No:
- p.116
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LVIII.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Since dearest friend tis your desire to see
- Page No:
- pp.117-118
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVII.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- Me who have lived so long among the great
- Page No:
- pp.118-119
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XCVI.
- Attribution:
- Cowley.
- Attributed To:
- Abraham Cowley
- First Line:
- In all thy humours whether grave or mellow
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- Ep. XLVII.
- Attribution:
- Spectator, No. 68.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thy beard and head are of a different dye
- Page No:
- p.119
- Poem Title:
- Ep. LIV.
- Attribution:
- Spectator, No. 86.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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