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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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[dedication]
On a Maggot.
On two Souldiers killing one another for a Groat.
[No Monarch's Death, no fall of Prince or King]
A Pindaricque,
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.
The Lyar.
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.
On a CHEESE.
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.
DIALOGUES.
1.
I. Dialogue, Between a Thatcher and a Gardener, for Precedency, on occasion of a Pot of Ale with this Inscription; Detur Digniori.
2.
The Second Dialogue, Between the Herring, and Whale.
3.
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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Maggots
Maggots
or, Poems on Several Subjects, Never before Handled. By a Schollar [i.e. Samuel Wesley]
Samuel Wesley
1662-1735
Printed for John Dunton
London
1685
Maggots