Miscellanies in prose and verse
Subtitle: consisting of dramatick pieces, poems, humorous tales, fables, &c. under the following heads: I. The rival priests; or, The female politician: a farce. II. The perjur'd devotee; or, Force of love: a comedyIII. Muscipula; sive, Cambro-muo-machia: with a translation of it in Miltonick verse. IV. Back-gammon; or, The battle of the friars. A tale. V. The fair counsellor; or, The young lady's conduct after marriage: a matrimonial conference. VI. An essay on the nature of fable; with select tales and fables, and other mythological amusements; concluding with a short pastoral interlude, entitled, The absent nymph, or The doating swain ...
By: By D. Bellamy, some time since of St. John's-college, Oxford, and D. Bellamy, jun. of Trinity-college,in Cambridge.
Contributors: Bellamy, D. d. 1788.; Holdsworth, E. 1684-1746.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 12192.
Publisher: Printed for J. Hodges
Published: 1739
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Notes: Vol. 1, second sequence, page numbers 11 and 12 omitted.

Each work has special title page (often with vignette) and separate paging.

Title page, vol. 2: Miscellanies in prose and verse: consisting of dramatic pieces, poems, humorous tales, fables, &c. under the following heads: I. Vanquish'd love; or, The jealous queen. II. The rival nymphs or, The merry swain. III. Innocence betray'd; or, The royal impostor. IV. Love triumphant; or, The rival goddesses. V. Three select scenes of the celebrated Guarini's Pastor fido, in Italian and English. VI. Select Aesopian tales, in prose and verse paraphrastically translated from Phaedrus, Cambray, and others ... By D. Bellamy [the elder] sometime since of St. John's college, Oxford. London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1740.

Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces.

Includes Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-machia, a satire on the Welsh people, by Edward Holdsworth (first published 1709) with the translation entitled The mousetrap, or the Cambrian patriot. Latin and English texts on adjacent pages.

The final page of vol. 1 contains an advertisement for two boarding schools for "young ladies," one run by Martha, wife of Bellamy the elder, the other run by Isaac and Hannah Wood.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 12192)

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