Chaucer's whims: being some select fables and tales in verse [T75499]

DMI number:

111

Publication Date:

1701

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T75499

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW3312483817

Shelfmark:

BOD G.Pamph. 1282 (3)

Full Title:

[g]Chaucer[/g]'s [g]Whims:[/g] | Being some Select | FABLES and TALES | In Verse, | Very Applicable to the | [i]PRESENT TIMES[/i]; | Under these following Heads: [i]Viz[/i]. | [text presented in two braced columns] [column one] The [i]Succession.[/i] | The [i]Convocation.[/i] | The [i]Non-juring | Clergyman.[/i] | [i]Jack of both sides.[/i] | The [i]Triumvirate.[/i] | [i]Justice Mistaken.[/i] | The [i]Ken. Petition[/i] [/column one] | [column two] The [i]True-born-En- | glishman.[/i] | [i]Trade and Empire | Inconsistent. | One that Sh----t | in his Hat,[/i] &c. | The [i]Musick-Prize.[/i] | The [i]Impeachment.[/] [/column two] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed by [i]D. Edwards[/i], and sold by the Booksellers | of [i]London[/i] and [i]Westminster.[/i] 1701.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Pagination:

[4], 35 [1] p.

Bibliographic details:

MS note in BOD G.Pamph. 1282 (3) on p. 35 'Octor. 1737'.

Comments:

NOTES: 'The verses are not by Chaucer, attributed to William Pittis (ESTC)' (SUAREZ). GENRE: Topical / political miscellany CONTENTS: Many poems about the Act of Settlement. SEE ALSO: Tom Teltroth, Jest and earnest: being a bundle of fables, tales and whims (ESTC N6704). **NOT IN SUAREZ. Chaucer's Whims included (reissued?) as part 2 of this?

Other matter:

PREFATORY MATERIAL: Preface

Related People

Author:

Geoffrey Chaucer

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

Spuriously claimed to be based on Chaucer's works.

Author:

William Pittis

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

Attributed to Pittis in ESTC. Unclear how much of the text is by him. Other works (on ECCO) by / including poems supposedly by Pittis are not in Suarez (e.g. N6704 Jest and Earnest 1703; T21085 Aesop at the Bell-Tavern 1711).

Printer:

D Edwards

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Printed by [i]D. Edwards[/i], and sold by the Booksellers | of [i]London[/i] and [i]Westminster.[/i]

Content/Publication

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In times of old when beasts were wondrous wise

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pp.1-3

Poem Title:

The Succession

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Fly fly from Rome the S---te cries

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p.4

Poem Title:

Moral

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The king of birds a senate held

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pp.5-7

Poem Title:

The Convocation

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A man of sense may find

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p.7

Poem Title:

Moral

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Cried a jolly fat parson that could not subscribe

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pp.8-9

Poem Title:

The non-juring clergyman

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Could English counsellors advise

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p.9

Poem Title:

Moral

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When Anthony against Caesar rose

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p.10

Poem Title:

Jack of both sides

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How many P---s have done the same

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p.11

Poem Title:

Moral

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A leopard chosen to a throne

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pp.12-13

Poem Title:

The triumvirate

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Any man in his senses from hence may conclude

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p.14

Poem Title:

Moral

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A dolphin once had an intent

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p.15-16

Poem Title:

Justice mistaken

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Some certain great people that sit at the stern

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p.17

Poem Title:

Moral

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The chief of the brutes were all met to prevent

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pp.17-19

Poem Title:

The Kentish petitioners

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A dispute once arose twixt an ass and a mule

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pp.20-21

Poem Title:

The true-born Englishman

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Five wisemen of Kent are designed by this story

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p.20

Poem Title:

Moral

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Look on this land that makes her boast

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p.22

Poem Title:

Moral

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As Caesar stood upon the strand

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pp.23-24

Poem Title:

Trade and empire inconsistent

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To see a royal name set down

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pp.24-25

Poem Title:

Moral

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In old King Alfred's happy reign

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pp.25-28

Poem Title:

On one that sh----t in his hat, and afterwards put it upon his head

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A crafty mouse as ever made

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pp.29-32

Poem Title:

The musick prize

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Let Purcel not think he falls short of our praise

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p.32

Poem Title:

Moral

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A fierce wild boar that had transgressed

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pp.33-35

Poem Title:

The impeachment

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