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Or, Poems On Various Subjects. In Three Parts. By Alexander Pennecuik ... The Second Edition. Enter'd in Stationer's Hall

Pennecuik, Alexander

[epigraph]

ON THE RUINS OF Wallace's Tree In the TORWOOD.

To the Nine Muses,

To Sir Richard Steele,

An amorous Epistle from the Abbot Bothwell,

The Spider and the Gout.

A DIALOGUE BETWIXT A Sea-Man and a Taylor.

Duke of Buckinghan's Jest on Dr. Barrow,

Mr. HERRON'S Memorable Saying when Dying.

Chancellor Hyde's Jest, ON Dr. Bull the famous Jester:

TO My honour'd Friend Dr. P---k,

A Farewell to CELIA going to the North.

II.

MERRY TALES FOR THE Lang Nights of Winter,

Jotham's Parable:

II.

[Part II]

III.

PART III.

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Chancellor Hyde's Jest, ON Dr. Bull the famous Jester:

Applying to him for Promotion in the Church; and Dr. Bull's snug Reply.

CHANCELLOUR.
I hate to see a smooth headed Bull.
Where's the Horns should adorn your Skull?

Dr. BULL.
Your Lordship must know, in my Country Side,
The Horns are always join'd to the Hide.