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The Poetical Entertainer

Or, Tales, Satyrs, Dialogues, And Intrigues, &c. Serious and Comical. All digested into such Verse as most agreeable to the several Subjects. To be publish'd as often as occasion shall offer [by Edward Ward]
Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

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The Norwich Lady:
  
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Moral.
  
The Conforming Parson.
  
A Dialogue between two Friends, Tom and Jack.
  
A gentle Reproof to a deceitful Friend.
  
The Good Man's Supplication.
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The Cuckoldy Yeoman:
  
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Moral.
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The Character of a certain rattling Whig.
  
Whig and Tory.
  
The Courtier's Compliment.
  
The B*****s.
  
The Climber.
  
The Two Harlots.
  
Chloe at Church.
  
The Countryman's description of his Mistress.
  
The Tinker's Courtship.
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The deceitful Lady punish'd, AND Innocent Love rewarded.
  
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Moral.
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The English Foreigners:
  
A short Reprimand to a Prodigal Heir.
  
Upon the Prospct of Peace.
  
An Epigram.
  
[If Bread and Cheese and Onions]
  
The Justice and the Bawd.
  
The Tobacco Sot.
  
An Enigma.
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An humble Offering to the Best of Queens, upon the Consummation of Peace.
  
An Epitaph on a certain Great Man, who broke his Heart upon the change of the Ministry.
  
A Bitter Draught for a Whig with a foul Stomach.
  
The Plain-dealing Lover.
  
THE Extravagant Drunkard's Wish.
  
Upon the late Learned and Ingenious Dr. William King.
  
Upon Singing Birds in a Prisoner's Room.
  
On Belinda setting the Seed of an Amaranth, and lamenting the Fate of Annuals.
  
A Congratulatory Poem to a certain Gentleman lately Honour'd by Her Majesty.
  
A necessary Caution to a worthless Prodigal, who fancies himself Great without Authority, Wise without Knowledge, and Rich without Money.
  
A Hymn sung before Her Majesty, by the Charity-Children, at Kinsington.
  
A new Psalm, to be sung by a Congregation of Poets.
  
Tom Tell-truth:
  
At the Great Gates in Red-Bull-Yard, between St. John's-Street and Clerkenwel-Green
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Upon a Tory Lady who happen'd to open her Floodgates at the Tragedy of Cato.
  
The following Epitaph, tho' old, was never before Printed.
  
Engrav'd upon a Salver made of all sorts of base Coin, according to the following Particulars.
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Upon rooting up the Royal Oak in St. James's Park,
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The seasonable Caution.
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The Murmurs of the Oak.
  
A Prayer to Apollo.
  
All Sublunary Things are subject to Mutation.
  
A silly Wife the worst of Evils.
  
The odious Comparison.
  
The deceitfulness of human Friendship:
  
The Mournival of Knaves.
  
A Bottle-Definition of that Fall'n Angel, call'd, a WHIG.
  
The Modish Quack:
  
Woman given to Change:
  
A SATYR
  
An Epitaph upon a Bawdy Batchelor, who lately Departed this Life.
  
Upon GAMING.
  
Upon LOVE.
  
An Epigram written by a Quaker, to a trousom Impertinent, who us'd to tease him about his Religion.
  
Between the Genius of Billingsgate, and the Genius of Exchange-Alley.
  
Truth without Dissembling:

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Moral.

Tho' many act an odious part,
In hopes to hide their sins by Art,
Yet humane Craft no Guilt can smother,
'Twill come to light some way or other.
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