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The Poetical Works of the Ingenious and Learned William Meston

... The Sixth edition
Meston, William (1688?-1745)

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THE KNIGHT OF THE KIRK:
  
INTRODUCTION.
  
The KNIGHT.
  
[epilogue]
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OLD Mother GRIM's TALES,
  
TO THE Most Conspicuous, most Serene, and most Illustrious Prince and Potentate, The Man in the Moon.
  
THE PUBLISHER, TO THE Candid Reader.
  
INTRODUCTION.
 I. 
TALE I.
 II. 
TALE II.
 III. 
TALE III.
 IV. 
TALE IV.
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TALE V.
  
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MORAL.
 VI. 
TALE VI.
 VII. 
TALE VII.
 VIII. 
TALE VIII.
 IX. 
TALE IX.
 X. 
TALE X.
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Decadem Alteram,
  
On the Death of CHARLES XII. King of Sweden.
  
On the lamented Death of the Earl of STRATHMORE.
  
CATO's GHOST.
  
Ejusdem Pars Altera.
  
Prologue to the Recruiting Officer,
  
In Equum quo excussus Auriacus extinctus est.
  
An Imitation of Horace's Ode 5.
  
A HYMN, on the Approach of the 29th of May.
  
A holy ODE, from Mount Alexander.
  
[Had what the Samian Philosoph supposes]
  
A LETTER from a Gentleman to his Brother,
  
To Allan Ramsay, on the Death of Mr. HILL.
  
Viri humani, salsi & faceti, Gulielmi Sutherlandi, multarum Artium & Scientiarum Doctoris Doctissimi, DIPLOMA.
  
Formula Gradus dandi.
  
To the FREE-MASONS.
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MOB CONTRA MOB:
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Canto I.
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Canto II.
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Canto III.
 IV. 
Canto IV.
 V. 
Canto V.
 VI. 
Canto VI.
  
The Contrast revers'd, and set in a true Light.
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APPENDIX.
  
Ipecacuhana;

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‘Directly forward still must ride.
‘I dare not stop, nor turn my back,
‘For marring of the almanack;
‘My restless wheels must still be jogging,
‘Nor dare I halt to take a noggan.
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