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Maggots

or, Poems on Several Subjects, Never before Handled. By a Schollar [i.e. Samuel Wesley]

Wesley, Samuel (1662-1735)

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[In's own defence the Author writes]

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On two Souldiers killing one another for a Groat.

[No Monarch's Death, no fall of Prince or King]

To my Gingerbread Mistress.

On the Bear-fac'd Lady.

An Anacreontique on a Pair of BREECHES.

A Tobacco Pipe.

On a COW's TAIL.

On a Hat broke at Cudgels

A Covetous old Fellow having taken occasion to hang himself a little; another comes in, in the nick, and cuts him down; but instead of Thanking him for his Life, he accuses him for spoyling the Rope.

On a Supper of a Stinking Ducks.

To the Laud and Praise of a Shock Bitch.

An ELEGY On the untimely and much lamented Death of Poor Spot, as loving a Bitch as ever went upon two Legs, who departed this Life,

A Box made like an Egg, was between Jest and Earnest, between Stoln and Borrow'd; but at last, (see the Honesty!) after a Year's Possession, restor'd with this in the Belly on't.

The Beggar and Poet.

Plures aluit Aristoteles quam Alexander.

A King turn'd Thresher.

On a Discourteous Damsel that call'd the Right Worshipful Author—(an't please ye!) Sawcy Puppy.

A Full and True Account of a Journey with its Appurtenances.

The Leather Bottle.

Out of Lucian's true History, Part the First.

An Elegant Letter, with a Copy of fine Verses by a London Wit, in answer to a Lampoon.

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I. Dialogue, Between a Thatcher and a Gardener, for Precedency, on occasion of a Pot of Ale with this Inscription; Detur Digniori.

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The Second Dialogue, Between the Herring, and Whale.

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The Third Dialogue, Between Chamber-pot and Frying Pan.

Against a Kiss.

On a certain Nose.

In Praise of Horns.

Advice to Monsieur Ragoo, who had his choice either to be Hang'd or Married.

On a pretended Schollar that would have had some Verses he had stoln from another Book inserted into the Maggots.

A Pindaric Poem On Three Skipps of a Louse.

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An Elegant Letter, with a Copy of fine Verses by a London Wit, in answer to a Lampoon.

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How doth the learned Critic stand,
Pensive and mad, with Pen in hand,
Fraighted with store of amorous Wares,
Which many an Author owns for theirs!

He is a Fool that thinks it good
To laugh at all that's made of Wood;
And eke in time may lifted be
Unto the fatal wooden Tree.

For this block of a Lover, Poet, Scrivener, &c was by Occuptaion a Joyner, or some such wooden Trade, of which he had a touch in a former Lampoon.