JAN 1952

LIE

THE

POEMS

OF

John Gay.

VOL. II.

Chiswick:

FROM THE Press of c. whittiNGHAM,

COLLEGE HOUSE.

The Proeme to the Courteous Reader

Prologue. To the Right Hon. the Lord Bolingbroke

Monday: or, The Squabble.

Tuesday: or, The Ditty.

Wednesday: or, The Dumps.

Thursday: or, The Spell..

Friday: or, The Dirge..

Saturday: or, The Flights.

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To a Lady. Occasioned by the Arrival of her Royal

Highness the Princess of Wales

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To the Right Hon. the Earl of Burlington. A Journey

80

To a Lady, on her Passion for old China..

108

Bounce to Fop. An Epistle from a Dog at Twickenham

to a Dog at Court....

110

Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldsmith,

near Temple-bar

113

To Bernard Lintot, on a Miscellany of Poems....

Elegiac Epistle to a Friend; written under a dejection

of Spirits..

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119

TALES.

An Answer to the Sompner's Prologue of Chaucer. In

The Birth of the Squire. In Imitation of the Pollio of

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The Espousal. A sober Eclogue between two of the

The Story of Cephisa.......

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Prologue. Designed for the Pastoral Tragedy of Dione 232

The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Gril-

drig. A Pastoral.........

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Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver...................

To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain. A Lilliputian

Ode.....

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The Man-Mountain's Answer to the Lilliputian Verses... 243

Verses to be placed under the Picture of Sir Richard

Blackmore..

A Contemplation on Night..

A Thought on Eternity...

Epitaph of By-words..

My own Epitaph.

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