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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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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.
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DIALOGUES.
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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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[In's own defence the Author writes]

In's own defence the Author writes
Because while this foul Maggot bites
He nere Can rest in quiet
Which makes him makes Soe sad a face
Heed beg your worship or your Grace
Vnsight unseen to buy it.
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