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Folio
As Tom the porter went up Ludgate Hill
`A political tale alluding to transactions in the year 1745' [from Adams's weekly courant published at Chester, 1746]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 21v
Beat on proud billows Boreas blow
L'Estrange, Sir Roger
`The liberty and requiem of an imprisoned royalist' [note: `See Gent. Mag. Feb. p. 82. Taken from Parnassus Biceps...1656']
Folger
W.a.118
f. 7v
Come grand Apollo tune my lyre
B., Sir W.
`Upon the nuptials of John Talbot esquire and Mistress Elizabeth Kite' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656, p. 55]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 5
Come leave that saucy way
`Against Ben Jonson' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656, p. 154]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 9v
Hail ancient book most venerable code
Tickell, Thomas
`From the hornbook, a poem by a gentleman in his old age' [from Arthur Masson's collection of English prose and verse, published in 1764]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 19v
Hail Raleigh! venerable shade
`On tobacco, by a sea-officer' [taken from a ms penes viduam D__v__s (Davies) Dec. 8, 1752'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 11
Her for a mistress would I fain enjoy
`How to chose a mistress' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656, p. 64'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 4v
Here in cool grot and fringed cell
Shenstone, William
`From the root house in the same place' [pencil note: `Dodsley's 3o edition 1768, vol. 2, p. 289. With 2 more stanzas. Taken from a ms lent by coz. widow Davis about the beginning of 1752]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 4
How smoothly did the minutes glide
Shenstone, William
`Stanzas written in autumn 1748' [pencil note:3rd edition Dodsley 1768, p. 176. Vol. 1. Taken from a ms lent by coz. widow Davis about the beginning of 1752]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 2v
I wonder that you should send for the cloak
`An answer to the letter of the cloaks' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656, p. 134]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 10v
Ill-busied man why should'st thou take such care
King, Henry
`On man' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656, p. 80]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 5
Marry and love thy Flavia for she
`On the praise of an ill-favored gentlewoman' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 6
My dear companion and my faithful friend!
Somervile, William
`An address to his elbow chair new clothed...author of The chase written towards the close of his life'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 20v
Not kiss? By Jove I must and make impression
`A paradox on the praise of a painted face' [taken from Parnassus biceps, 1656, p. 97]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 6v
Now crowds on crowds on goddess dulness press
Pope, Alexander
`Description and speech of a pedant schoolmaster. From Mr. Pope's new Dunciad'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 11v
O you that bathe in courtly bliss
Shenstone, William
`From the Gothic building' [pencil note: `Dodsley, [3rd edition 1768 vol. 2] p. 303. Taken from a ms lent by coz. widow Davis about the beginning of 1752']
Folger
W.a.118
f. 4
Our Oxford shrieve of late is grown so wise
Stone, Ben
`Upon Sheriff Sambourne's beer' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656, p. 23]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 10
Pengrouze a lad with many talents blest
`A Cornish eclogue' [from Gentleman's magazine June 1762]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 17v
Says Richard to Thomas (and seem'd half-afraid)
`The progress of advice'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 19
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Gray, Thomas
`An elegy written in a country churchyard [by]...author of The cat and vase'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 12v
The fair demand my song nor can my muse
`Verses occasioned by the rude treatment which some agreeable young ladies suffered from pretended Oxford scholars' [`A vindication of some young ladies who were affronted by...' (alternative title) deleted]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 1
Well well 'tis true
`To his imperious mistress' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656, p. 110]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 8v
When bushes silver'd o'er with snow
`On skating'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 12
When friends or fortune frown on Mira's lay
Leapor, Mary
`Crumble Hall' [from the collection of Mrs. Leapor, vol. 2, p. 111, published in 1751]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 15
When learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes
`The beginning of a prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick at opening the theater in Drury Lane 1747'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 12v
When Tom to Cambridge first was sent
Shenstone, William?
`The extent of cookery...Vol. 1'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 18v
Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd
Browne, William
`Upon one dead in the snow' [taken from Parnassus biceps...1656, p. 78]
Folger
W.a.118
f. 4v
__You, ye titled youths! whose nobler zeal
Shenstone, William
`An extract from a poem of...called Oeconomy. Vol. 1, p. 288. Part the 1st'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 19
Youth is the busy term of love,
`The lawyer's address (exhortation__deleted) to the ladies'
Folger
W.a.118
f. 2