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The Bays Miscellany

or Colley Triumphant: containing I. The Petty-Sessions of Poets. II. The Battle of the Poets, or the Contention for the Laurel; as it is now Acting at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. III. The Battle of the Poets. An Heroic Poem. In Two Canto's. With the True Characters of the several Poets therein mention'd; and just Reasons why not qualify'd for the Laurel. The Whole design'd as a Specimen of those Gentlemens Abilities, without Prejudice or Partiality. Written by Scriblerus Quartus [i.e. Thomas Cooke]
Cooke, Thomas (1703-1756)

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THE PETTY-SESSIONS OF POETS.
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THE BATTLE OF THE POETS:
 
OR THE Contention for the Laurel.
 
A NEW PROLOGUE
 
Dramatis Personae.
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AIR.
 
[The OATH.]
 
The SONG.

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Dramatis Personae.

Candidates for the Laurel.
  • Fopling Fribble,
  • Coment Profund,
  • Sulky Bathos,
  • Noctifer,
  • Flaile.
Judges of the Contention.
  • Lord Truetaste,
  • Lord Grizzle,
  • Noodle,
  • Doodle.
Officers of the Laurel.
  • Dangle,
  • Dismal.
  • The other Characters as usual in Tom Thumb.
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