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The London-Spy Compleat In Eighteen Parts

By the Author of the Trip to Jamaica [i.e. Edward Ward]
Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

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THE London-Spy.
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PART I.
  
A Song against Musick.
  
A Song by a Musician against Poetry.
  
[Madam how great and good your Vertues are]
  
[Two lively Figures in one piece you've shown]
  
The Madmans Flight.
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[Part II.]
  
[I was got by an Honest Poor Man]
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[Part IV.]
  
SONG.
  
[May Rats and Mice]
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[Part V.]
  
[Who can such Blessings, when they're found resign?]
  
[May the Cockroach and Moth]
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[Part VI.]
  
[Bullies, like Dunghill-Cocks, will strut and Crow]
  
A Character of a Quack.
  
On Bridewel.
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[Part VII.]
  
On White-Fryars.
  
[As Mariners with hopes their Anchors weigh]
  
[Sure none like Man, will their own Kind annoy]
  
[How Vain is Youth? How Ripe to be Undone]
  
[Unhappy VVretch, by Chance and Bounty Fed]
  
[Could Youth those early Hours to Study bend]
  
[Fie! You great Looby John]
  
['Tis a sad Rendezvouz of the Wicked'st of Wretches]
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PART VIII.
  
[Woman (when Good) the best of Saints]
  
[Sure Art and Nature, no where else can show]
  
[To a Coblers Aul, or Butchers Knife]
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[Part IX.]
  
[Here Persons who for Places Wait]
  
[Great were thy Wrongs, thy Patience still as great]
  
[Fine Lace or Linnen, Sir]
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[Part X.]
  
A Letter from a LAWYER in Town, to a New Married OFFICER in the Country.
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[Part XII.]
  
[To speak but the Truth of my Honest Friend Ned]
  
[If any shall say want of Manners or Sense]
  
[The Bulky Cits March'd after in a Throng]
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PART XIII.
  
[Gods People sure are once again run Mad]
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PART XIV.
  
In Praise of PUNCH.
  
[What sundry Projects the Ingenious find]
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[Part XV.]
  
The Character of a Common Victualler.
  
Of a Cunning-Man.
  
Informing Constables, and other Informers
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[Part XVI.]
  
Of a Master of a Vessel.
  
[When Bacchus once the Priest subdues]
  
[Pride, Beauty, Prattle, Leachery and Conceit]
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[Part XVII.]
  
The Character of a Banker.
  
[Bless the good Ladies and good Food]
  
[Our hearty Thanks we humbly Pay]
  
The Character of a Gossip.
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PART XVIII.
  
To the Pious Memory of the most Subline and Accurate Mr. John Dryden.
  
[Bred up in th'Fields near Lincolns-Inn]
  
[Little their Learning, less their Sence]
  
[When Conjurers their Purses draw]

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By the Author of the Trip to Jamaica [i.e. Edward Ward]

Edward Ward

1667-1731
Printed and sold by J. How [etc.]
London
1703
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