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Twas at the silent solemn hour
Hanbury Williams, Sir Charles, 1708_1759
`William and Margaret' [parody of David Mallet's `When all was wrapt...', against the Gin Act. Printed 1743 (Foxon W503)]
And word spoke never more.
Yale
c.179
p. 1
Ah! hapless victory, what avails
`The Victory man of war in distress'
And buries numbers in thy womb.
Yale
c.179
p. 61
As a poor urchin on the ice,
`On sin a simile'
With them are ruined ever more.
Yale
c.179
p. 57
By land let them travel, as many as please
`The balloon traveller'
Where on earth can you find such a lodging.
Yale
c.179
p. 45
Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop
Prior, Matthew, 1644_1721
`The trifler'
He never gets two inches higher.
Yale
c.179
p. 53 (ll. 1_12)
Here's Mother Bunch's little house under the hill
`Mother Bunch's house'
And tarts and cheese-cakes are their fare.
Yale
c.179
p. 62
I hest off my clogs__hung th' belt cwoat on a pin
Clark, P. [or E.]
`A satirical ballad in the Cumberland dialect'
To meet you next year__and for twenty years more. Derry down [&c.].
Yale
c.179
p. 41
In paper case
Gough, Richard
`Epitaph on a dormouse' [c. 1747]
Repent of yours in time.
Yale
c.179
p. 55
Interred beneath this marble stone
Prior, Matthew, 1644_1721
`Epitaph on sauntering Jack and idle Joan'
And so they lived; and so they died.
Yale
c.179
p. 11
Jack and Joan's twa queer fellaws
`Jack and Joan a comic song...written...1796'
And Jacky was put in the stove(?) at the door.
Yale
c.179
p. 63
John Bonsar blue hen
`[from] Poor Robin. Or a collection of poems for 1798' [Poor Robin's almanac, 1798]
No more let every idle ass.
Yale
c.179
p. 27 (incomplete)
So pert Mistress Prate-apace how came you here
`To a bad girl'
You're proud and ill-natured__go | Hussy go home.
Yale
c.179
p. 60
So pretty Miss Prudence, you're come to the fair
`To a good girl'
Nay have what she pleases__your | Servant Miss Prue.
Yale
c.179
p. 59
Sweet innocence and constant love
`On the dove'
For peace is ever virtue's guest.
Yale
c.179
p. 24
There was an old man who liv'd on a common
`The wonderful old man'
Had he lived a day longer he'd have been a day older. | Derry down [&c.].
Yale
c.179
p. 47; see also T1654.
Three children sliding on the ice
`On sliding'
Pray keep them all at home.
Yale
c.179
p. 51
Why tarries my love
`The dove a song'
For the pigeon that flutters and dies.
Yale
c.179
p. 19