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Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies

including The Chessiad, a Mock-Heroic, in Five Cantos; and The Wreath of Love, in Four Cantos. By C. Dibdin, the Younger
Dibdin, Charles (1768-1833)
  
[dedication]

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LEVITIES AND COMIC TALES.
  
TO MY PEN.
  
THE ORNITHOLOGICAL REVIEW.
  
TOM AND DICK.
  
THE WIG; OR THE JUDGE AND HIS LADY.
  
PAT AND POP;
  
THE PRACTICAL BULL.
  
ROBERT AND BOB;
  
FARE AND FEED;
  
IRREGULAR ODES;
  
GENIUS AND JOCKEYSHIP;
  
HORSES' BELLS;
  
THE ASTROLOGER;
  
PREJUDICE;
  
CHINA AND CROCKERY WARE;
  
THE ASS AND THE MULE;
  
THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH.
  
THE STAG AND THE LION.
  
THE FOX THAT LOST HIS TAIL.
  
THE APE AND HER YOUNG ONES.
  
CONCEIT;
  
ANECDOTE OF DANIEL FRANCIS VOISIN,
  
EPIGRAM.
  
FIRE AND FROST;
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THE CHESSIAD, A MOCK-HEROIC POEM, IN FIVE CANTOS.
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CANTO FIRST.
 2. 
CANTO SECOND.
 3. 
CANTO THIRD.
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CANTO FOURTH.
 5. 
CANTO FIFTH.
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THE WREATH OF LOVE;
 1. 
CANTO FIRST.
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CANTO SECOND.
 3. 
CANTO THIRD.
 4. 
CANTO FOURTH.
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LYRICAL FANCIES.
  
SAILOR'S SONG.
  
THE RINGLET AND WREATH.
  
CONTEMPT OF PITY.
  
SYMPATHY.
  
LOVE SECRETS.
  
CURIOSITY AND CUPID.
  
HEALTH,
  
THE BROKEN HEART.
  
A RUSTIC BALLAD.
  
ODE TO MY CAT.
  
ON A PRETTY COQUETTE.
  
INVITATION.
  
THE LOVER'S CALL.
  
LINES, On seeing a young Lady, who was blind, playing on the Lute.
  
THE MANIAC'S FUNERAL, Written upon seeing at Bethlem Hospital what the Poem describes.

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TO ADMIRAL SIR JOSEPH YORKE, K.C.B. THESE PAGES ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR.
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