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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

1.

VOLUME ONE HEADLONG HALL

2.

VOLUME TWO MELINCOURT

3.

VOLUME THREE NIGHTMARE ABBEY AND MAID MARIAN

4.

VOLUME FOUR THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN AND CROTCHET CASTLE

5.

VOLUME FIVE GRYLL GRANGE

6.

VOLUME SIX POEMS

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7.

VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS

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PAPER MONEY LYRICS, AND OTHER POEMS.

THE THREE LITTLE MEN

PROŒMIUM OF AN EPIC

A MOOD OF MY OWN MIND,

LOVE AND THE FLIMSIES

THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM

CHORUS OF BUBBLE BUYERS

A BORDER BALLAD

ST. PETER OF SCOTLAND

LAMENT OF SCOTCH ECONOMISTS ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE ONE-POUND NOTES

CALEDONIAN WAR WHOOP

CHORUS OF SCOTCH ECONOMISTS, ON A PROSPECT OF SCOTCH BANKS IN ENGLAND.

YE KITE-FLYERS OF SCOTLAND

CHORUS OF NORTHUMBRIANS ON THE PROHIBITION OF SCOTCH ONE-POUND NOTES IN ENGLAND.

RICH AND POOR; OR SAINT AND SINNER

THE FATE OF A BROOM

BYP AND NOP

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

AHRIMANES AND Other Verse Fragments

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BYP AND NOP

Promotion BY Purchase and by NO Purchase; or a Dialogue between Captain A. and Colonel Q.

Quoth Byp to Nop, “I made my hop
By paying for promotion:”—
Quoth Nop to Byp, “I made my skip
By aid of petticoatian.”

Quoth Nop to Byp, “You'll never trip
Ascending steps of Gold by:”—
Quoth Byp to Nop, “You'll never drop
With such a tail to hold by.”

[N.B.—Byp, for by purchase, and Nop, for no purchase, are the common official abbreviations in all returns of promotions, and ring the changes through long columns of Parliamentary papers.]