The agreeable companion [ESTC T97919, P6248]

DMI number:

754

Publication Date:

1745

ESTC number:

T97919 / P6248

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110993623

Shelfmark:

BOD - Harding E 11

Full Title:

THE | [i]Agreeable Companion[/i]; | OR, AN | UNIVERSAL MEDLEY | OF | WIT and GOOD-HUMOUR. | Consisting of a Curious | COLLECTION | Of the most | [2 columns] [column 1] [i]Humourous Essays, | Smart Repartees, | Prudential Maxims, | Familiar Dialogues, [/column 1] | [column 2] Epigrams[/i] and [i] Epitaphs, | Tales[/i] and [i]Fables, | Emblems[/i] and [i]Riddles, | Shining Epistles, [/i] [/column 2] | AND | BEAUTIFUL CHARACTERS | Both Fabulous and Real. | WITH | SELECT NOVELS, | Extracted from the | WRITINGS of the most approv'd AUTHORS, | Both Antient and Modern. | Among which are interspers'd Several | ORIGINAL PIECES | In PROSE and VERSE. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON.[/i] | Printed for W. BICKERTON, in the [i]Temple-Exchange, Fleet- | street[/i]; and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country. | MDCCXLV.

Epigraph:

[i]That[/i] WORK [i]stands fairest for an Age to last, | Which[/i] (NOSEGAY-[i]like) has[/i] Flow'rs [i]for ev'ry Taste.[/i]

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of comic verse, Periodical miscellany, Collection including prose, and Collection including drama

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

i-iv [1-6] 1-144, 157-383 [1]

Bibliographic details:

[query: title page in red and black?] Originally printed and sold in eight weekly parts of c. 4 sheets / 48pp. long: Part 1: pp. 1-48; Part 2: pp. 49-96; Part 3: pp. 97-144; Part 4: pp. 157-204; Part 5: pp. 205-252; part 6: pp. 253-300; part 7: pp. 301-348; part 8: pp. 349-383. Part 8 possibly included Sheet A (i.e. the title page and prefatory material of the collection).

Comments:

Miscellaneous Prose: pp. 1-10, 11-15, 19-21, 23-31, 33-35, 42-43, 46-47, 49-50, 52-57, 67-85, 87-90,96-102, 104-116, 120-133, 137-140, 157-159, 163-168, 173-174, 176-180, 184-190, 197-200, 203, 207-219, 222-224, 230-238, 244-245, 248-252, 259-265, 268-273, 276-282, 292-295, 297-300, 306-310, 312-315, 323-325, 327-328, 332-333, 335-336, 340-347, 365-366, 368, 371-374, 381-383.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Prose preface 'To the Courteous Reader' pp. [i]-iv; Contents page [6pp.] Back matter: Advertisement at end of book [1p.].

References:

Case 447 [Query: estc number T97919 redirects to a record for P6248]

Related People

Author:

Weaver Bickerton

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

BBTI

Content/Publication

First Line:

Once on a time it by chance came to pass

Page No:

pp.10-11

Poem Title:

All to no purpose; or, Labour in Vain.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A modern cook bred up at France

Page No:

pp.16-17

Poem Title:

Nature will prevail; or, there's no making a Velvet Purse of a Sow's Ear.

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Not attributed

First Line:

A pastry cook once moulded up a t-d

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

The same Story paraphras'd, by another Hand, under the Title of the Tale of the a T-d.

Attribution:

by another Hand

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Not attributed

First Line:

Maggot pretends to some discerning

Page No:

pp.21-22

Poem Title:

The Hyp-Doctor; or, the Chamber-maid discarded. A Tale.

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First Line:

Geron a jovial monk a tipling blade

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Old Geron and his Maid Margery; or, the Leak discover'd. A Tale.

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First Line:

Thus though the morning lowers and clouds arise

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Once on a time of mortal men

Page No:

pp.36-41

Poem Title:

The Parson's Pocket-Companion; or, the Cork-Scrue. A Merry Tale for all true Lovers of the Bottle.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How capricious were nature and art to poor Nell

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

On Nell.

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First Line:

In every marriage two things are allowed

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

On Marriage.

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When Thomas calls his wife his half

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p.44

Poem Title:

On Thomas.

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First Line:

Who says my lord and lady disagree

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p.44

Poem Title:

The Happy Pair: or, Both of one Mind.

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First Line:

Here innocence and beauty lies whose breath

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

On another Virgin-Beauty.

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First Line:

Here lies my poor wife without bed or blanket

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

The Consolation.

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First Line:

So fair so young so innocent so sweet

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p.45

Poem Title:

On the Death of a Virgin-Beauty.

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First Line:

Stephen and time

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

A Lilliputian Epitaph on little Stephen, a noted Fiddler in the County of Suffolk.

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First Line:

Underneath this stone doth lie

Page No:

p.45

Poem Title:

On another.

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First Line:

Most courteous readers | We all suppose you're pleased this plainly shows

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p.48

Poem Title:

An humourous Poetical Address to our good-natur'd Readers, to Suppose themselves pleas'd (whether they are or not) with our Art in Cookery.

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First Line:

Sly Merry Andrew the last Southwark fair

Page No:

p.51

Poem Title:

Merry Andrew no Fool; or, a close Mouth catches no Flies. A Tale.

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First Line:

In vain with weeping eyes the queen of love

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Cupid turn'd Tipstaff; an Heroi-Comic Tale.

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First Line:

In heaven one holiday you read

Page No:

pp.59-61

Poem Title:

Cupid and Ganymede; or, the Celestial Gamesters.

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First Line:

Of two battalions set in rank and file

Page No:

pp.61-67

Poem Title:

The Table Battle; or, The Canonical Gamesters. A Tragi-Comic Tale.

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First Line:

Thus after plain repast each cheerful guest

Page No:

p.71

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Whilom in Kent there lived a jolly swain

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Tit for Tat; or, Revenge a-la mode. An Heroi-Comic Tale.

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First Line:

To blast the man that durst aspire

Page No:

pp.90-92

Poem Title:

Pandora; or, the Celestial Donation.

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First Line:

Ah me quoth Betty who could ever have thought

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

On Betty.

Attribution:

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First Line:

An old stale widower loving a young wench

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

The old Widower repuls'd.

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First Line:

Colin was married in all haste

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

Fast and Loose.

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First Line:

Paula thou fain would'st marry me

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p.93

Poem Title:

To Paula.

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First Line:

Says Sir John to my lady as together they sat

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p.93

Poem Title:

Sir John.

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First Line:

Thomas in high-Dutch once did court a wench

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

On Thomas.

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First Line:

Here lies old Hobson death hath broke his girt

Page No:

pp.94-95

Poem Title:

On Hobson, the University Carrier, who sicken'd in the Time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague.

Attribution:

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First Line:

One prompt physician like a sculler plies

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

The Advantage of having two Physicians.

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First Line:

Were I who am not of the Romish tribe

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

On Marriage.

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First Line:

When in the dark on thy soft hand I hung

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

On a deform'd Lady.

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First Line:

My sledge and hammer lie reclined

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

On a Blacksmith.

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First Line:

This little child into the world did peep

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

On a Child, who died as soon as Born.

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First Line:

We lived one and twenty years

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

On a Shrew

Attribution:

Written by her Husband.

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First Line:

Death at a cobbler's door oft made a stand

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

On a Cobler.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Here lies the Lord have mercy on her

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

On one of Queen Elizabeth's Maids of Honour.

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First Line:

Dick served a widow of no mean esteem

Page No:

pp.102-104

Poem Title:

The Game of Put. A Tale.

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First Line:

Falsehood disguised under religion's veil

Page No:

p.116

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Miss Molly a famed toast was fair and young

Page No:

pp.117-119

Poem Title:

The Specifick; or, A Cordial for the Ladies.

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First Line:

A man of wisdom may disguise

Page No:

pp.133-136

Poem Title:

A Fool's Bolt is soon shot; or, The Apple-Pye broke loose.

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First Line:

As Lambeth prayed such was the dire event

Page No:

p.139

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

All you that would

Page No:

pp.141-144

Poem Title:

The Universal Rectifier; or, No Spring like Bally-Spelling: Being a facetious Encomium on those Medicinal Waters.

Attribution:

Written by Dean Sw-t, tho' not inserted in his Miscellanies.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

On vice your humorous vein display

Page No:

p.158

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

poetical Lady

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First Line:

What is the blooming tincture of a skin

Page No:

p.159

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Two college sophs of Cambridge growth

Page No:

pp.160-163

Poem Title:

The Hyp-Lover: or, The Fatal Discovery.

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First Line:

The sceptics think 'twas long ago

Page No:

pp.168-172

Poem Title:

The Ladle; or, The Triple Wish.

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First Line:

This commoner has worth and parts

Page No:

pp.172-173

Poem Title:

Moral.

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First Line:

From London Paul the carrier coming down

Page No:

p.175

Poem Title:

The Whimsical Proclamation; or, The Maiden's Wish.

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First Line:

Beyond the fixed and settled rules

Page No:

pp.180-184

Poem Title:

Fair and softly goes far; or, The Wary Physician.

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First Line:

The silver moon and all her starry train

Page No:

pp.190-192

Poem Title:

Content is a continual Feast; or, The Vanity of Ambition. From Seneca.

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First Line:

By your honour's command

Page No:

p.193

Poem Title:

Jack Tar's modest Address to his Captain, When brought to the Gang-way to be whipt.

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First Line:

Desponding Phyllis was endued

Page No:

pp.194-196

Poem Title:

Marriage a-la-mode; or, The Penitent Prude;

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First Line:

I view the world in little space

Page No:

p.201

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Of mirth the parent and the child of art

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p.201

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

What fortune gives I wear in state

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p.201

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

When first the architect of all

Page No:

pp.201-202

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

You oft have asked to know my friend

Page No:

pp.203-206

Poem Title:

A Familiar poetical Epistle to a Friend, Giving him a humourous Detail of his Manner of Life.

Attribution:

A. Z.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Behold the Lilliputian throng

Page No:

pp.206-207

Poem Title:

A Riddle.

Attribution:

Dr. Stebb-g.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sicilian muse begin a loftier strain

Page No:

pp.220-222

Poem Title:

Virgil's Fourth Pastoral; or, his Pollio.

Attribution:

Mr. Dryden

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Friendly air miscalled a vapour

Page No:

p.224

Poem Title:

The Reverse of a Sigh.

Attribution:

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First Line:

It so befell a silly swain

Page No:

p.225

Poem Title:

The Ecstatic Vision; or, The Je ne Scay quoi.

Attribution:

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First Line:

No no for my virginity

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

A true Maid.

Attribution:

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First Line:

This vain thing set up for a man

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p.226

Poem Title:

Wrote under the Picture of a Beau.

Attribution:

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First Line:

To John I owed great obligation

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p.226

Poem Title:

On John.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Whilst maudlin whigs deplore their Cato's fate

Page No:

p.226

Poem Title:

On a Lady who shed her Water, on seeing the Tragedy of Cato.

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First Line:

Here stand I for whores as great

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p.227

Poem Title:

Verses pin'd to a Sheet, in which a Lady stood to do Pennance in the Church.

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First Line:

If death must come as oft as breath departs

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

Death made easy.

Attribution:

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First Line:

My heart is proud your charms to wear

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

To a Lady of Pleasure.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Under this hedge in stormy weather

Page No:

p.227

Poem Title:

A Marriage Certificate.

Attribution:

By Dean Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Beneath this silent stone is laid

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

On a talkative old Maid.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Stay bachelor if you have wit

Page No:

p.228

Poem Title:

On a Man and his Wife.

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First Line:

Ye sacred spirits while your friends distressed

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p.228

Poem Title:

An Epitaph written by Mr. Pitt, Translator of Virgil's Aeneid, to the Memory of his Mother and Brother, interr'd in Blandford Church, in Dorsetshire.

Attribution:

by Mr. Pitt.

Attributed To:

Christopher Pitt

First Line:

A zealous locksmith died of late

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

On a Lock-Smith.

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First Line:

Behold this tomb

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

On a virtuous Wife.

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First Line:

Here he lies beside a witch

Page No:

p.229

Poem Title:

On a Baily.

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Here lies beneath this silent bed of grass

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p.229

Poem Title:

On the late Duke of --, commonly call'd Bugg.

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Here lies father Sparges

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p.229

Poem Title:

On an old Miser.

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First Line:

Hans Carvel impotent and old

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pp.238-242

Poem Title:

The Magick Padlock; or, A Charm against Jealousy.

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First Line:

Since Christmas gambols are so much in fashion

Page No:

pp.242-243

Poem Title:

A ludicrous Poetical Invective Against Christmas Gambols, Minc'd Pies, and Plumb-Porridge, &c. &c...by Way of Epilogue to the Metamorphosis; Or, the Devil of a Wife, in the Character of Parson Noddy.

Attribution:

Written and spoken by a School-boy at a private Academy

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First Line:

A farmer once to London went

Page No:

pp.245-248

Poem Title:

'Tis ill meddling with edg'd Tools; or, The Biters Bit.

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First Line:

Dear Tom | This comes to let you know

Page No:

pp.253-258

Poem Title:

Happy's the Wooing, that's not long a-doing: or, If one will not, Another will.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The hoary fool who many days

Page No:

p.263

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Sweet solitude when life's gay hours are past

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p.265

Poem Title:

[No title]

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First Line:

Ye groves and flowery vales in you we find

Page No:

pp.266-268

Poem Title:

The Charms of Solitude.

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First Line:

A merchant there was an arch merry blade

Page No:

pp.273-276

Poem Title:

The Facetious Tobacconist; or, The Book-Worm out-witted. A Tragi-comic Ditty. To the Tune of A Cobler there was, and he liv'd in a Stall.

Attribution:

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First Line:

From sacred dreams and thoughts prepared to pray

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pp.283-285

Poem Title:

The Virgin.

Attribution:

By the Late N. Tate, Esq; Poet Laureat.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

Go muse and bid good morrow to the bride

Page No:

pp.285-288

Poem Title:

The Wife.

Attribution:

By the Late N. Tate, Esq; Poet Laureat.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

From Hymen's joys the muse with drooping wing

Page No:

pp.289-292

Poem Title:

The Widow.

Attribution:

By the Late N. Tate, Esq; Poet Laureat.

Attributed To:

Nahum Tate

First Line:

In Italy as authors tell us

Page No:

pp.296-297

Poem Title:

The Rival Painters; or, The Unlucky Blunder.

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First Line:

We sage Cartesians who profess

Page No:

pp.301-305

Poem Title:

The Artful Prude; or, the Devil Outwitted.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A set of phrases learnt by rote

Page No:

pp.310-311

Poem Title:

The Picture of an Affected Beauty: or, The Proclamation.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A king in youthful charms arrayed

Page No:

pp.316-323

Poem Title:

The Artful Groom; or, The Monarch Outwitted.

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First Line:

To you the mother of our schools

Page No:

pp.325-327

Poem Title:

A Facetious Dialogue Between the New Lotteries in the Merry Tom Brown's Days, and the Royal Oak, at that Time a favourite Amusement with the Court-Gamesters.

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First Line:

Why should our joys transform to pain

Page No:

pp.328-330

Poem Title:

The Indian Philosopher.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Say mighty love and teach my song

Page No:

pp.330-332

Poem Title:

Few Happy Matches.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Apollo once finding fair Daphne alone

Page No:

pp.334-335

Poem Title:

Apollo and Daphne.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Happy the lot to view with ravished eyes

Page No:

pp.337-338

Poem Title:

Orpheus and Euridice. A Tale.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Stilpo of Stoic cast who first

Page No:

pp.338-339

Poem Title:

True Riches; or, Virtue its own Reward. A Tale.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A band of cupids the other day

Page No:

pp.339-340

Poem Title:

Cupid and Cloe; or the Lucky Fall; A Tale.

Attribution:

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First Line:

All you that hither chance to come

Page No:

p.340

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

An Oxford Scholar

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Not attributed

First Line:

Here's Monmouth the witty and Lauderdale the pretty

Page No:

p.341

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Earl of Rochester

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Here's a health to Kate our sovereign's mate

Page No:

p.342

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Rochester

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Here lies Du Val - reader if male thou are

Page No:

p.347

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Poor little pretty fluttering thing

Page No:

p.348

Poem Title:

The Emperor Adrian's Death-Bed Verses to his Soul, imitated.

Attribution:

By Mr. Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

Wouldst thou be damned at once and perish whole

Page No:

p.348

Poem Title:

On a Physician and Parson, who had both abus'd him.

Attribution:

By Mr. Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

When daring Blood his rent to have regained

Page No:

p.348

Poem Title:

On Blood's stealing the Crown.

Attribution:

By Andrew Marvel.

Attributed To:

Andrew Marvell

First Line:

Thus blooming youth in ripening years

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pp.349-350

Poem Title:

Upon Something. Written under the Picture of Daphnis and Chloe.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Come gentle air the Aeolian shepherd said

Page No:

p.349

Poem Title:

On a Fan, in which was painted the Story of Cephalus and Procris, with this Motto: Aura Veni.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

C----l let me advise you whatever betides

Page No:

p.350

Poem Title:

Saving Advice to E-- C---, on his advertising a Third Volume of Letters.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Jack eating rotten cheese did say

Page No:

p.350

Poem Title:

The Bravado.

Attribution:

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First Line:

O blessed season loved by saints and sinners

Page No:

p.350

Poem Title:

On Christmas.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Accept a miracle instead of wit

Page No:

p.350

Poem Title:

Written on a Glass with the Earl of Chesterfield's Diamond Pencil.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Dear Sally emblem of thy chop-house ware

Page No:

p.351

Poem Title:

To Sally, at the Chop-House behind the Royal Exchange.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Two or three dears and two or three sweets

Page No:

p.351

Poem Title:

A Receipt for Courtship.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You beat your pate and fancy wit will come

Page No:

p.351

Poem Title:

The Numscull.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An epigram's good when like you mistress Frail

Page No:

p.352

Poem Title:

To a Lady who desir'd to know in what the Goodness of an Epigram consists.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh what bosom but must yield

Page No:

p.352

Poem Title:

To a Sempstress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Gammar Gurton first I knew

Page No:

p.352

Poem Title:

On Gammer Gurton.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How ill the motion with the music suits

Page No:

p.352

Poem Title:

On a Company of bad Dancers to good Musick.

Attribution:

By Mr. Budgel.

Attributed To:

Eustace Budgell

First Line:

Here flat on her back but unactive at last

Page No:

p.353

Poem Title:

On the late Sally Salisbury.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here old Grubbinol lies

Page No:

p.353

Poem Title:

On a certain Nobleman, who died by taking Cantharides.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Underneath this sable hearse

Page No:

p.353

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mary, Countess of Pembroke.

Attribution:

By Ben Johnson.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

O rare Ben Jonson what a turncoat grown

Page No:

p.354

Poem Title:

On Ben Johnson's Bust, set up in Westminster-Abbey, with the Buttons on the wrong Side of his Coat.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Samuel Wesley.

Attributed To:

Samuel Wesley

First Line:

Here lies a lady who if not belied

Page No:

p.354

Poem Title:

On Mrs. Hold-Fast.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies our sovereign lord the king

Page No:

p.354

Poem Title:

On King Charles II.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Rochester.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

To this sad shrine whoever thou art draw near

Page No:

p.354

Poem Title:

On Mr. Harcourt's Tomb.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope

First Line:

Two welshmen partners in a cow

Page No:

pp.355-356

Poem Title:

Bad on both Sides; or, The Whimsical Contract.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As after noon one summer's day

Page No:

pp.356-357

Poem Title:

Cupid mistaken.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Chloe came into the room the other day

Page No:

pp.357-358

Poem Title:

A Lover's Anger.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Chloe's picture was to Venus shown

Page No:

p.357

Poem Title:

Venus mistaken.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From public noise and factious strife

Page No:

pp.358-360

Poem Title:

The Hypocritical Couple; or, The Lying Lovers. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst men have these ambitious fancies

Page No:

p.360

Poem Title:

The Moral.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Chloe how blubbered is that pretty face

Page No:

pp.360-361

Poem Title:

Mr. Prior's Answer to Cloe's Jealousy of him.

Attribution:

Mr. Prior

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

A virtuoso had a mind to see

Page No:

pp.361-363

Poem Title:

Just as you please; or, The Incurious. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In all humanity we crave

Page No:

p.363

Poem Title:

The Commons Petition to King Charles II.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An abbot rich whose taste was good

Page No:

pp.364-365

Poem Title:

The Canonical Quibler; or, The Prevarication. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Orpheus of old as poets tell

Page No:

pp.366-367

Poem Title:

The Uxorious Musician; or, The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice Burlesqu'd. A Tale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though Phoebus had often descended of late

Page No:

pp.369-371

Poem Title:

Of against On: A Law-Case.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair Venus they say

Page No:

pp.374-376

Poem Title:

Maid's have you any Hearts to mend; or, Cupid turn'd Tinker.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms

Page No:

p.376

Poem Title:

Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk, after having heard him sing Psalms.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When a man to the town for a show brings a lion

Page No:

p.376

Poem Title:

On a Surly Publican, Master of the Red Lion Inn, at a certain Place, near Oxford.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When with rank poison heaven equipt Pandora

Page No:

p.376

Poem Title:

An Inscription upon a Tobacco-Box.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Have you not seen the raging stormy main

Page No:

p.377

Poem Title:

To the Curious Criticks and Admirers of Metre.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

See whilst thou weepest fair Chloe see

Page No:

pp.377-378

Poem Title:

To Cloe, weeping.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis the Arabian bird alone

Page No:

p.377

Poem Title:

The Encouragement,

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloe you write to me for coin

Page No:

p.378

Poem Title:

Flaminius, to his Drinking Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The heavens carouse each day a cup

Page No:

p.378

Poem Title:

An Anacreontic.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Parson these things in thy possessing

Page No:

pp.379-380

Poem Title:

The Happy Life of a Country Parson.

Attribution:

By Dr. Swift.

Attributed To:

Jonathan Swift

First Line:

Tell me Dorinda why so gay

Page No:

p.379

Poem Title:

On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to King James II.

Attribution:

By the Earl of Dorset.

Attributed To:

Charles Sackville

First Line:

From Abraham's bosom full of lice

Page No:

p.380

Poem Title:

On Sarah, a Taylor's Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here lies the body of Barren Pegg

Page No:

p.380

Poem Title:

On Barren Peg.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The modest stone what few vain marbles can

Page No:

p.380

Poem Title:

On Mr. Fenton.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope