The Windsor Medley ['Third edition'] [T69084]

DMI number:

14

Publication Date:

1731

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T69084

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW110612328

Shelfmark:

BOD Harding C 118.

Full Title:

THE | [i]WINDSOR[/i] MEDLEY: | BEING | A Choice COLLECTION of several | Curious Pieces in PROSE and VERSE: | That were handed about in MANUSCRIPT | and PRINT, | During the Stay of the Court at WINDSOR-CASTLE | last Summer. | Most of them never before Printed. | [i]VIZ.[/i] | [two columns] [column 1] A most ingenious Epigram upon | Miss [i]F-n-ss[/i]; and another on | [i]Miss P--[/i]. | Lord [i]H-r-y[/i] to Mr. [i]S. F-x[/i]. | Some Account of a Booby of | Quality lately exported beyond | Sea on his Travels. | Verses upon a Mistake that hap-| pen'd in administring a Clyster | to a Lady of Quality at [i]Windsor[/i]. | A Copy of Verses upon the Al-|dermen of [i]London[/i]. | The [i]Windsor[/i] Ballad. | Several Epigrams on the Poet | Laureat, by some of the best | Hands. Also the New-Year's-|Day Ode. | A most remarkable Letter from | a [i]Dorsetshire[/i] Attorney to his [/column 1] | [column two] Kinsman, relating to the Judges | refusing to sign his Certificate. | A King at Arms disarm'd at | Law, a Ballad. | A [i]Welsh[/i] Surgeon's Bill for a Widow Inn-Keeper at [i]Oswaldstree[/i]. | Blasphemy as Old as the Crea-| tion, an incomparable Satyr. | [i]Ruth[/i] the Quaker, her Rebuke to | the [i]Craftsman[/i], and her Exhor-| tation to Peace and Unity, in | an Epistle to a certain Great | Man. | [i]Cloe[/i]'s Precaution. | An Epistle from [i]Jack Ketch[/i], to | the Rape-Master-General. | On an old Batchelor of Seventy, | his making Love to a Maiden of | Fifteen in [i]Westminster[/i]. [/column 2] | Together with numbers of other very curious Things, not | mentioned in the TITLE. | [line] | The THIRD EDITION Corrected, with large Additions. | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for A. MOORE, near St. [i]Paul's[/i]; and sold by the | Booksellers of [i]London[/i] and [i]Westminster[/i]. 1731. | (Price One Shilling.)

Epigraph:

n/a

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Topical miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Price:

1 shilling

Pagination:

[2], 62pp.

Comments:

CONTENTS: Prose sections: pp. 8-13; 23-24; 29; 36-39.

References:

Case 371 (c)

Related Miscellanies

Title:

The Windsor Medley [17 titles] [N25098]

Publication Date:

1731

ESTC No:

N25098

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Title:

The Windsor Medley [20 titles] [ESTC T58887, N25099]

Publication Date:

1731

ESTC No:

T58887/N25099

Volume:

1 of 1

Relationship:

Unknown

Comments:

Related People

Publisher:

Arthur Moore

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Cupid with Ganymede to play

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

On Miss Kitty F-n-ss

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First Line:

Why all this pride and scorn Miss P-

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p.3

Poem Title:

To Miss P-

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First Line:

Thou dearest youth who taught me first to know

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pp.3-5

Poem Title:

Lord H-rv--y, To Mr. S. F---x. Written at Florence. In Imitation of Horace. Ode the 6th, Book II.

Attribution:

Lord H--rv--y

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John Hervey

First Line:

Damon asked me but once and I faintly denied

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pp.5-6

Poem Title:

The Disappointed Maid

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Genteel in personage

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p.6

Poem Title:

The Maiden's Husband

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First Line:

To heal the wound a bee had made

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p.7

Poem Title:

An Epigram on Miss K. A--ls--n

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By Mr. H.

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First Line:

Without affectation gay youthful and pretty

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p.7

Poem Title:

The Batchelor's Wife

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First Line:

You fair who play tricks to be fairer draw near

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pp.13-15

Poem Title:

Verses upon a Mistake that happened in administring a Clyster to a Lady at Windsor. Tune of Hey-derry-down.

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First Line:

Not closer to this book stuck learned Salmasius

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pp.16-17

Poem Title:

A Copy of Verses spoken Off-hand, in a Barge, last Lord-Mayor's Day, over a Bowl of Punch

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First Line:

When London's famous town

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pp.18-19

Poem Title:

The Windsor Ballad. Tune, Come follow, follow me, ye Fairy Elves.

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First Line:

On rattling floors did late thy flail rebound

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p.20

Poem Title:

To Mr. Stephen Duck.

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First Line:

When Fondle-Wife now sick and like to die

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p.20

Poem Title:

On Conjugal Sincerity

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In ancient days when pensions bribes and screens

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p.21

Poem Title:

Another

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Well said Apollo still tis mine

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p.21

Poem Title:

An Epigram

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First Line:

Tell if you can which did the worse

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p.22

Poem Title:

A Question

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When Pope displayed in pompous rhyme

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p.22

Poem Title:

Another.

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First Line:

My masters give ear

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pp.24-26

Poem Title:

A Song

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By an unknown Hand

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First Line:

Ye fair injured nymphs and ye beaux who deceive 'em

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pp.26-28

Poem Title:

A King at Arms disarm'd at Law. A Ballad.

Attribution:

By an unknown Hand

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First Line:

Cupid once having robbed an hive

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p.28

Poem Title:

An Epigram

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First Line:

Here lies honest William Dawe

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p.30

Poem Title:

Epitaph.

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Here lies John Coom

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p.30

Poem Title:

Another.

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I John Bell of Crakehill lys under this stein

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p.30

Poem Title:

Another in Topliff Church-yard in Yorkshire.

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Oxford or Cambridge wag attend

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pp.31-32

Poem Title:

The Way to Preferment

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First Line:

Want or the pride of being deemed polite

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pp.32-34

Poem Title:

Blasphemy as Old as the Creation: Or, The Newgate Divine. A Satyr. Addressed to the modern Advocates of Irreligion, Profaneness, and Infidelity.

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First Line:

When Mira's hands her needle thread

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pp.34-36

Poem Title:

To Mrs. ---- on her working a Coat in Silks.

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By the Author of the Satire intituled, Blasphemy as old as the Creation

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An ancient tale I mean to write

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pp.39-42

Poem Title:

The Norfolk Favourite; or, the Rise and Fall of Gaveston. A Ballad.

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First Line:

May I presume in humble lays

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pp.42-43

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Kitty K-nd-ll of New-Windsor, who loves Dancing

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First Line:

Thou aged lump of lifeless clay

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pp.43-44

Poem Title:

To a very Old Batchelor, intending to marry a very beautiful Young Maid in Westminster.

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First Line:

Most happy times are now foretold

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p.44

Poem Title:

A Prophecy.

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First Line:

By Jove tis hard tis wondrous hard

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p.45

Poem Title:

Cut with a Diamond on a Pane of Glass at the Bell and Castle in Windsor.

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First Line:

Our silver gone and eke our gold

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p.45

Poem Title:

Upon the same Subject.

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First Line:

Once more the ever circling sun

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pp.46-47

Poem Title:

Ode for New-Year's-Day. 1731...As it was Perform'd, both Vocal and Instrumental, before all the Royal Family, in the Council-Chamber at St. James's.

Attribution:

By Colley Cibber Esq; Poet Laureat.

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Colley Cibber

First Line:

O Cibber darling of the tuneful nine

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pp.48-50

Poem Title:

A Hymn to the New Laureat

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By a Native of Grub-Street

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Not attributed

First Line:

Since fate deceived us both in fear and hope

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pp.51-54

Poem Title:

An Epistle from John Hooper, alias Ketch, Citizen and Cord-wayner, of London, and Middlesex, Essex, Kent and Surrey, to the Rape-master-General of Great Britain.

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First Line:

A certain presbyterian pair

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pp.54-55

Poem Title:

The Sportive Lambs.

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First Line:

O born to do thy country good

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pp.55-56

Poem Title:

The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated. Address'd to Sir R. Walpole in Norfolk.

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First Line:

When Cato died for liberty and laws

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p.57

Poem Title:

An Acrostick

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First Line:

Young Civiana gay and fair

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pp.57-58

Poem Title:

The Retaliation. To a young Lady who received a Kiss as an Affront, at a City Visit.

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First Line:

Forgive me Venus if I tell

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pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Cloe's Precaution

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First Line:

Here lies old Hare

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pp.59-60

Poem Title:

Epitaph on Joseph Hare, a Sexton.

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Ocean's vast womb nor Afric's deserts can

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pp.60-62

Poem Title:

Characters of Men and Manners.

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