GONDIBERT, a POEM.

191

82.

The chief once enter'd 'midst the busy throng,
Soon might the reft effect their bold defign;
Then should grim war succeed to mirthful song,
And Mar's dread feats take place of rites divine.

330

83.

But while he thus infidious wiles prepares,
A flaggling foldier roving o'er the plain
Is caught unheeding in their hidden fnares,
By such a force as makes refistance vain.

335

84.

Yet the wife captive meeting art with art,
Pretends great love to princely Hubert's fide,
And offers many a secret to impart,
Which may againſt his foes ſtrong arms provide: 340

85.

For this too careleſsly the guards attend,
On one devoted to their maſter's cauſe,
And while they ſlightly watch this new made friend,
He tow'rds the city ſuddenly withdraws.

86. Though

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86.

Though not so safe he took his speedy flight,
But that the foe his fly desertion found,
Whose troops purfu'd him thro' the shades of night,
And mark'd him o'er with many a ghaftly wound.
345

87.

But yet the fugitive the city gains,
Tells all the fnares the wily foe had laid,
Then spent with toil and agonizing pains,
He finks at once, and mingles with the dead.
350

88.

Now the fcar'd priefts the rites prepar'd furceafe,
To the loud trumpets found, the timbrels yield ;
The youths ftrait lay afide their weeds of peace,
And arm them quickly for the martial field.
355

89.

While the grave old, and thofe whose rev'rend place
Ranks them in council with Verona's peers,
In their long robes repair with flower pace,
To where its head the lofty palace rears.
360

90. There

GONDIBERT, a POEM.

193

90.

There awful met beneath their monarch's eye,
With prudent care they scan the sum of things,
In state sublime, sage Aribert on high,
Weighs all advice that from their counsel springs.

91.

Thus in Verona pafs the gloomy hours,
While tempefts roar, and thunders rend the sky,
While dreaded earthquakes shake the nodding tow'r's
And all the bulwarks tremble from on high.

92.

At length while in debate the senate fate,
A shout so loud came echoing from afar,
That seem'd as if Verona's final fate
Hung on the peal that rent the wounded air.

93.

A peal so loud that the rude tempeft's noife,
Was loft and drowned in its louder found,
And fuch the fwell of the fonorous voice
As congregated waters murm'ring found.

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S

94. Strait

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94.

Strait rife the peers, confusion fills the hall,
A thoufand tongues at once rude clamour raiſe,
A thoufand fears do ev'ry heart appall,
While each to learn the dreadful news effays.

380

95.

Of these ſtrange tidings, and the ſtranger deeds
Of many a chief, Verona's boaſt and pride,
And ſtill what further change to all ſucceeds,
And what grave words, or bloody ſwords decide,

96.

Theſe in another Canto ſhall be ſhewn,
But here our ſteeds a-while we mean to rein,
Like thofe of Sol who leave his ev'ning throne,
And ſleep with Thetis in the Western main.

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ACIS

EPITAPH

OF

BYE-WORDS.

HERE lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd

Every word she e'er heard in this church about God.

To convince her of God the good Dean did endeavour,

But still in her heart she held nature more clever.

Tho' he talk'd much of virtue, her head always run

Upon something or other, she found better fun.

For the dame, by her skill in affairs astronomical,

Imagin'd, to live in the clouds was but comical.

In this world, she defpis'd ev'ry foul she met here,

And now she's in t'other, - she thinks it but queer.

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GUARDIAN,
No. II.

—Huc propius me,
Dum doceo Infanire omnes, vos ordine adito.

HOR.

THERE is an oblique way of reproof, which takes
off from the sharpness of it; and an address in flattery,
which makes it agreeable though never so gross: but of
all flatterers, the most skilful is he who can do what you
like, without saying any thing which argues you do
it for his sake; the most winning circumstance in the
world being the conformity of manners. I speak of this
as a practice necessary in gaining people of sense, who
are not yet given up to self-conceit; those who are far
gone in admiration of themselves need not be treated
with so much delicacy. The following letter puts this
matter in a pleasant and uncommon light: the author of
it attacks this vice with an air of compliance, and alarm
us against it by exhorting us to it.

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To.

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To the GUARDIAN.

SIR,

AS you profess to encourage all those who any
way contribute to the public good, I flatter myself I
may claim your countenance and protection. I am
by profession a mad doctor, but of a peculiar kind,
not of those whose aim it is to remove phrenzies, but
am one who make it my business to confer an agreeable
madness on my fellow-creatures, for their mutual de-
light and benefit. Since it is agreed by the philoso-
phers, that happiness and misery conflict chiefly in the
imagination, nothing is more necessary to mankind in
general than this pleasing delirium, which renders
every one satisfied with himself, and persuades him
that all others are equally so.

“ I have for several years, both at home and abroad,
made this science my particular study, which I may
venture to say I have improved in almost all the courts
of Europe; and have reduced into so safe and easy a
method, as to practise it on both sexes of, what dif-
position, age or qualityfoever, with success. What
enables me to perform this great work, is the use
of my Obsequium Catholicon, or the Grand Elixir, to
support the spirits of human nature. This remedy
is of the most grateful flavour in the world, and agrees
“ with

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" with all taſtes whatever. It is delicate to the ſenses,
" delightful in the operation, may be taken at all
" hours without confinement, and is as properly given
" at a ball or play-houſe as in a private chamber. It
" reſtorſes and vivifies the moſt dejected minds, corrects
" and extraſts all that is painful in the knowledge of a
" man's ſelf. One doſe of it will inſtantly diſperſe it-
" ſelf through the whole animal ſystem, diſſipate the
" firſt motions of diſtruſt ſo as never to return, and ſo
" exhilarate the brain and rarify the gloom of reſſec-
" tion, as to give the patients a new flow of ſpirits, a
" vivacity of behaviour, and a pleafing dedendance
" upon their own capacities.

" Let a perſon be never ſo far gone, I adviſe him not
" to deſpair; even though he has been troubled many
" years with reſtleſs reſſlections, which by long neglect
" have hardened into ſettled consideration. Thoſe that
" have been ſtung with fatire may here find a certain
" antidote, which inſallibly diſperſes all the remains of
" poſſon that has been left in the understanding by bad
" cures. It fortifies the heart againſt the rancour
" of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, and the
" mortification of lampoons; as has been often expe-
" rienced by ſeveral perſons of both ſexes, during the
" ſeafons of Tunbridge and the Bath.

" I could, as farther inſtances of my ſuccesſs, produce
" certificates and teſtimonials from the favourites and
" as ghastly fathers of the moſt eminent princes of Eu-
" rope; but ſhall content myself with the mention of a

U 2

“ few

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“ few cures, which I have performed by this my Grand
“ Universal Reformative, during the practice of one month
“ only since I came to this city.

Cures in the month of February, 1713.

“ GEORGE SPONDEE, Esq; poet and inmate of the
parish of St. Paul's Covent-Garden, fell into violent
fits of the spleen upon a thin third night. He
had been frighted into a vertigo by the sound of cat-
calls on the first day; and the frequent histritions on the
second made him unable to endure the bare pronun-
ciation of the letter S. I searched into the causes of
distemper; and by the prescription of a dose of my
Obsequium, prepared secundum Artem, recovered him
to his natural state of madneſs. I caſt in at proper
intervals the words, Ill taſte of the town, Envy of critics,
Bad performance of the actors, and the like. He is ſo
perfectly cured that he has promiſed to bring another
play upon the stage next winter.

“ A lady of profefled virtue, of the parish of St.
James's Westminſter, who hath deſired her name may
be concealed, having taken offence at a phraſe of
double meaning in converſation, undifcovered by
any other in the company, ſuddenly fell into a cold fit
of modelſty. Upon a right application of praeſe of her
virtue, I threw the lady into an agreeable waking
dream, ſettled the fermentation of her blood into a

“ warm.

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“ warm charity, so as to make her look with patience
“ on the very gentleman that offended.

“ HILARIA, of the parish of St. Giles's in the Fields,
“ a coquet of long practice, was by the reprimand
“ of an old maiden reduced to look grave in company,
“ and deny her self the play of the fan. In short, she
“ was brought to such melancholy circumstances, that
“ she would sometimes unawares fall into devotion
“ at church. I advised her to take a few innocent
“ freedoms with occasional kisses, prescribed her the ex-
“ ercise of the eyes, and immediately raiSED her to
“ her former state of life. She on a sudden recovered
“ her dimples, furled her fan, threw round her glances,
“ and for these two Sundays laft paft, has not not once
“ been seen in an attentive pofture. This the church-
“ wardens are ready to atteft upon oath.

“ ANDREW TERROR, of the Middle-Temple, Mohock,
“ was almost induced by an aged bencher of the fame
“ house to leave off bright conversation, and pore over
“ Coke upon Littl. ton. He was so ill that his hat began
“ to flap, and he was seen one day in the laft term.
“ at Westminfter-Hall. The patient had quite lost his
“ fpirit of contradiction; I, by the distillation of a
“ few of my vivyfying drops in his ear, drew him from
“ his lethargy, and restored him to his usual vivacious
“ misunderstanding. He is at present very easy in his
“ condition.

“ I will not dwell upon the recital of the innumerable
cures I have performed within twenty days laft paft ;

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but rather proceed to exhort all persons, of whatever
age, complexion or quality, to take as soon as pos-
fible of this my intellectual oil; which applied at the
ear seizes all the senses with a most agreeable trant-
sport, and discovers its effects, not only to the fatis-
faction of the patient, but all who converse with, at-
tend upon, or any way relate to him or her that re-
ceives the kindly infection. It is often administered
by chamber-maids, valets, or any the most ignorant
domesticks; it being one peculiar excellence of this
my oil, that it is most prevalent, the more unskilful
the person is or appears who applies it. It is abso-
lutely necessary for ladies to take a dose of it just be-
fore they take coach to go a visiting.

“ But I offend the public, as Horace faid, when I
“ trespafs on any of your time. Give me leave then,
“ Mr. Ironfide, to make you a present of a drachm or two
“ of my oil; though I have cause to fear my Prescrip-
tions will not have the effect upon you I could wish :
“ therefore I do not endeavour to bribe you in my fa-
vour by the present of my oil, but wholly de-
pend upon your publick spirit and generosity; which
“ I hope, will recommend to the world the useful en-
devours of,

SIR,

“Your most obedient, most faithful, most devoted,
most humble servant and admirer,

GNATHO.

*‡* Beware of counterfeits, for such are abroad.

N.B.

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“ N. B. I teach the *Arcana* of my art at reafonable rates to gentlemen of the univerfities, who defire to be qualified for writing dedications; and to young lovers and fortune-hunters, to be paid at the day of marriage. I infruct persons of bright capacities to flatter others, and thofe of the meaneſt to flatter themselves.

“ I was the firſt inventor of pocket looking-glasses.

THE

THE
GUARDIAN,
No. 149.

— Uretur Vestis amore tuæ.

OVID.

Your very Dref shall captivate his Heart.

I HAVE in a former precaution, endeavoured to shew the mechanism of an Epic Poem, and given the reader prescriptions whereby he may, without the scarce ingredient of a genius, compofe the several parts of that great work. I shall now treat of an affair of more general importance, and make Dref the subject of the following paper.

Dref is grown of universal use in the conduct of Life. Civilities and respect are only paid to appearance. It is a varnish that gives a lustre to every action, a paffe-par-tout that introduces us into all polite assemblies, and the only certain method of making moft of the youth of our nation conspicuous.

There

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There was formerly an absurd notion among the men of letters, that to establish themselves in the character of wits, it was absolutely necessary to show a contempt of dreads. This injudicious affectation of theirs flattened all their conversation, took off the force of every expression, and incapacitated a female audience from giving attention to any thing they said. While the man of dreads catches their eyes as well as ears, and every ludicrous turn obtains a laugh of applause by way of compliment.

I shall lay it down as an established maxim, which has been received in all ages, that no person can dreads without a genius.

A genius is never to be acquired by art, but is the gift of nature; it may be discovered even in infancy. Little master will smile when you shake his plume of feathers before him, and thrust his little knuckles in papa's full bottom; mis will toy with her mother's Mechlin lace, and gaze on the gaudy colours of a fan; she smacks her lips for a kis at the appearance of a gentleman in embroidery, and is frighted at the indecency of the houfe-maid's blue apron: as she grows up, the dreads of her baby begins to be her care, and you will see a genteel fancy open itself in the ornaments of the little machine.

We have a kind of Sketch of Dreads, if I may so call it, among us, which, as the invention was foreign, is called a Dishabille: every thing is thrown on with a loofe and careless air, yet a genius discovers itself even through this negligence of dreads, just as you may see the masterly

hand

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hand of a painter in three or four swift strokes of the
pencil.

The most fruitful in Genius is the French nation; we
owe most of our janty fashions now in vogue to some
adept beau among them. Their ladies exert the whole
scope of their fancies upon every new petticoat; every
head-dress undergoes a change; and not a lady of genius
will appear in the same shape two days together; so that
we may impute the scarcity of geniuses in our climate to
the stagnation of fashions.

The ladies among us have a superior genius to the
men, which hath for some years past shot out in several
exorbitant inventions for the greater consumption of our
manufacture. While the men have contented themselves
with the retrenchment of the hat, or the various scallop
of the pocket, the ladies have funk the head-dress, inclosed
themselves in the circumference of the hoop-petticoat;
furbelows and flounces have been disposed of at
will, the stays have been lowered behind, for the better
displaying the beauties of the neck; not to mention the
various rolling of the sleeve, and those other nice circumftances
of dresses upon which every lady employs her
fancy at pleasure.

The ſciences of Poetry and Drefs have so near an alli-
ance to each other, that the rules of the one, with very
little variation may ſerve for the other.

As in a poem all the several parts of it must have a
harmony with the whole; so, to keep the propriety of
drefs

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drefs, the coat, waitcoat and breeches muſt be of the fame piece.

As *Aristotle* obliges all dramatic writers to a ſtrict obſervance of Time, Place and Action, in order to compoſe a juſt work of this kind of poety; ſo it is absolutely neceſsary for a perſon that applies himſelf to the ſtudy of drefs, to have a ſtrict regard to theſe three particulars.

To begin with the Time. What is more abſurd than the velvet gown in ſummer ? and what more agreeable in the winter ? the muſſ and ſur are prepoſterous in June, which are charmingly ſupplied by the Turkey handkerchief and the fan. Every thing muſt be ſuitable to the ſeafon, and there can be no propriety in drefs without a ſtrict regard to time.

You muſt have no leſs reſpect to Place. What gives a lady a more eafy air than the wrapping gown in the morning at the tea-table ? the Bath countenances the men of drefs in ſhowing themſelves at the pump in their Indian night-gowns, without the leaſt indecorum.

Action is what gives the ſpirit both to writing and drefs. Nothing appears graceful without Action: the head, the arms, the legs, muſt all confpire to give a habit a genteel air. What diſtinguiches the air of a court from that of the country but Action? a lady by the careleſs toſs of her head will ſhow a ſet of ribbons to advantage; by a pinch of ſnuff judiciously taken will diſplay the glittering ornament of her little finger; by the

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the new modelling her tucker, at one view pre sent you
with a fine turned hand, and a rifing bofom. In order
to be a proficient in Action, I cannot sufficiently recom-
mend the ſcience of Dancing : this will give the feet an
eaſy gait, and the arms a gracefulness of motion. If a
perſon have not a ſtrict regard to theſe three above-
mentioned rules of antiquity, the richeſt drefs will ap-
pear ſtiff and affected, and the moſt gay habit ſantaſtical
and tawdry.

As different forts of poetry require a different ſtyle;
the Elegy tender and mournful; the Ode gay and ſpright-
ly; the Epic ſublime, &c. So muſt the widow confefs
her grief in the veil; the bride frequently makes her
joy and exultation confpicuous in the filver brocade;
and the plume and the ſcarlet dye is requisite to give
the ſoldier a martial air. There is another kind of oc-
cafional drefs in uſe among the ladies, I mean the rid-
ing habit, which ſome have not injudiciouſly ſtyled the
Hermaphrodiſtical, by reaſon of its maſculine and femi-
nine compoſition; but I ſhall rather chufe to call it the
Pindaric, as its firſt inſtitution was at a New-market
horſe-race, and as it is a mixture of the ſublimity of the
Epic with the eaſy ſoftneſs of the ode.

There ſometimes arifes a great genius in drefs, who
cannot content himſelf with merely copying from others;
but will as he ſees occafion, ſtrike out into the long poc-
ket, ſashed ſleeve, or ſomething particular in the diſpo-
ſition of his lace, or the flouriſh of his embroidery. Such
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recesses of the skull, and lays himself open to the application of that censure which Milton applies to the fair sex.

— of outward form
Elaborate, of inward lefts exact.

A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole drefs by a well-fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer gives spirit to a whole sentence by a single expression. As words grow old, and new ones enrich the language, so there is a constant succession of drefs; the fringe succeeds the lace, the stays shorten or extend the waist, the ribbon undergoes divers variations, the head-drefs receives frequent risés and falls every year; and in short, the whole woman throughout, as curious observers of drefs have remarked, is changed from top to toe in the period of five years. A poet will now and then, to serve his purpose, coin a word, so will a lady of genius venture at an innovation in the fashion; but as Herace advises, that all new-minted words should have a Greek derivation to give them an indisputable authority, so I would counsel all our improvers of fashion always to take the hint from France, which may as properly be called the Fountain of Drefs, as Greece was of literature.

Drefs may bear a parallel to poetry with respect to moving the passions. The greatest motive to Love, as daily experience shows us, is Drefs. I have known a lady at fight fly to a red feather, and readily give her

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applica-
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us wri-
reflion.
guage,
ge suc-
te, the
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short,
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in the
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to take
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cown a
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her

her hand to a fringed pair of gloves. At another time I
have seen the aukward appearance of her rural humble
fervant move her Indignation; she is jealous every time
her rival hath a new fuit; and in a Rage when her wo-
man pins her mantua to disadvantage. Unhappy, un-
guarded woman! alas! what moving rhetoric has she
often found in the seducing full-bottom? who can tell
the reflecs eloquence of the embroidered coat, the gold
fnuff-box, and the amber-headed cane.

I shall conclude these criticisms with some general re-
marks upon the Millener, the Mantua-maker, and the
Lady's Woman, these being the three chief on which all
the circumstances of drefs depend.

The Millener muſt be thoroughly verſed in physiog-
nomy; in the choice of ribbons ſhe muſt have a parti-
cular regard to the complexion, and muſt ever be mind-
ful to cut the head-drefs to the dimensions of the face.
When ſhe meets with a countenance of large diameter,
ſhe muſt draw the drefs forward to the face, and let the
lace encroach a little upon the cheek, which caſts an
agreeable ſhade, and takes off from its maſculine figure:
the little oval face requires the diminutive commode, juſt
on the tip of the crown of the head: ſhe muſt have a re-
gard to the ſeveral ages of women; the head-drefs muſt
give the mother a more ſedate mien than the virgin;
and age muſt not be made ridiculous with the flaunting
airs of youth. There is a beauty that is peculiar to the
feveral ſtages of life, and as much propriety muſt be ob-
ferved in the drefs of the old, as the young.

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The Mantua-maker muſt be an expert anatomiſt; and
muſt, if judiciously choſen, have a name of French ter-
mination; ſhe muſt know how to hide all the defecſs in
the proportions of the body, and muſt be able to mould
the ſhape by the ſtays, ſo as to preſerve the inteſtines,
that while ſhe corrects the body, ſhe may not interfer
with the pleafure of the palate.

The Lady's Woman muſt have all the qualities of a
critic in poetry; as her drefs, like the critic's learning,
is at Second-hand, ſhe muſt, like him, have a ready
talent at Cenſure, and her tongue muſt be deeply verſed
in detraCTION; ſhe muſt be ſure to aſperſe the characters of
the ladies of moſt eminent virtue and beauty, to indulge
her lady's ſpleen; and as it hath been remarked, that
critics are the moſt fawning ſycophants to their patrons,
ſo muſt our female critic be a thorough proficient in
ſtattery: ſhe muſt add ſprightlineſs to her lady's air
by encouraging her vanity, give gracefulneſs to her ſtep
by cheriſhing her pride, and make her ſhew a haughty
contempt of her admirers, by enumerating her imagi-
nary conqueſts. As a critic muſt ſtock his memory with
the names of all the authors of note, ſhe muſt be no
leſs ready in the recital of the beaus and pretty
fellows in vogue; like the male critic, ſhe afferts,
that the theory of any ſcience is above the practice, and
that it is not neceſſary to be able to fet her own perſon
off to advantage, in order to be a judge of the drefs of
others; and befides all thofe qualifications, ſhe muſt be
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endued with the gift of secrecy, a talent very rarely to be met with in her profession.

By what I have said, I believe my reader will be convinced, that notwithstanding the many pretenders, the perfection of drefs cannot be attained without a genius ; and I shall venture boldly to affirm, that in all arts and sciences whatever, Epic Poetry excepted, (of which I formerly shewed the Knack or Mechanism) a genius is absolutely necessary.

S. I. N. I. S.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE eagerness with which at present the fugitive pieces of late eminent writers are fought after, in order to rescue them from undeferved oblivion, and the kind reception such pieces generally meet with from the public, render it somewhat surprising that many of the performances of an author so much esteemed as Mr. Gay, should be almost lost to memory, and but rarely to be found even in the best furnished libraries.

It was this consideration that urged the Compiler of these sheets, to collect and distribute into order, such pieces of that celebrated writer, and send them forth into the world at a time when it was not without difficulty.

ADVERTISEMENT.

difficulty that many of them were procured,
and when some of them were on the point of
being totally loft to the public. He saw with
concern, the careleffneſs of thoſe Editors who
put out incomplete editions of Mr. Gay's works,
and attempted to paſs them for the whole,
either from mere ignorance in not knowing
better, or from indolence in not ſearching for
thoſe other works with which we here preſent
our readers. He conceived that ſo valuable
an addition to that author's works would be
well received by the candid and judicious, and
therefore ſet about collecting them, and nei-
ther ſpared coſt or pains till he had completed
the undertaking, and digeſted into the form.
it now wears, whereby it is rendered a fit com-
panion to the reſt of Gay's miſcellaneous per-
formances, as it is abſolutely neceſsary to
complete the works of that author.

That gentleman at the time of his death
had left no perfect edition of his Works; the
quarto volume published in the year 1720,
being

ADVERTISEMENT.

being far from comprising every piece he had
then written. When he died his papers fell
into the hands of his patron, the Duke of
Queensbury; but though his friend Pope, on
the recommendation of Dean Swift, * seems
to have been defirous of fuperintending an
edition of his works; yet from fome prevent-
ing caufe or other, it is certain that this
scheme of his was never executed.

Since that time, a collection of his plays
has been given to the public that was un-
doubtedly rendered imperfect by the omif-
sion of the several dramatic pieces contained
in this volume, which though they were not
fo favourably received as the others, (on ac-
count perhaps of party and perſonal pre-
judice) yet are not from thence to be con-
cluded deftitute of merit, and as they are cer-
tainly his productions, had conſequently a
right to be inferted in his works.

* See Pope's works, vol. ix. Letters, 63, 64, 65.

Of

ADVERTISEMENT.

Of all these plays, there is not one but
what was most certainly Mr. Gay's, through
an incorrect publication called *A Supplement to*
*Pope's Works*, affcribes the *Three Hours after*
*Marriage* to the latter; notwithstanding Mr.
Gay declares that he had the affiftance of two
friends, he always acknowledged the piece for
his own. The two friends he hinted at, were
indeed Mr. Pope and Dr. Arbuthnot, who
however never appeared, as the play was not
theirs, and befides, had not met with a fa-
vourable reception; all which appears by a
letter of Mr. Gay's written to Mr. Pope which
we have inferted below, in order to put the
matter out of dispute, and to fatisfy the cu-
rious reader.*

With

DEAR POPE,

“ Too late I see, and confess myself mistaken in
“ relation to the Comedy; yet I do not think, had
“ I followed your advice, and only introduced the
“ mummy,

ADVERTISEMENT.

With regard to the second volume, it com-
prises the poetical pieces of Mr. Gay not al-
ready inferted in those volumes that gene-
rally bear the title of his works. His tranfla-
tions and other little pieces, are to be found

“ mummy, that the abfence of the crocodile had faved
“ it. I can’t help laughing myself (tho’ the vulgar
“ do not confider it was defigned to look ridiculous)
“ to think how the poor monfter and mummy were
“ dafhed at their reception, and when the cry was
“ loudeft, I thought that if the thing had been writ-
“ ten by another, I fhouid have deemed the town in
“ fome meafure miftaken, and as to your apprehen-
“ fion that this may do us future injury, do not think
“ of it; the doctor has a more valuable name than can
“ be hurt by any thing of this nature; and yours is
“ doubly fafe. I will, if any fhame there be, take it
“ all to myfelf, and indeed I ought, the motion be-
“ ing firft mine, and never heartily approved by you.”

The prologue to this piece alone, feems to be the
sole work of Mr. Pope, the fifth and fixth lines were
afterwards inferted in the Dunciad,

for

ADVERTISEMENT.

for the most part dispersed in Garth's Ovid,
and in Swift's Mifcellanies. As to the Poem
called Wine, the Editor has already given his
reasons for inserting it in a note at the bottom,
and the Story of Cephisa, the Elegiac Epi-
ftle to a Friend, the Man Mountain's An-
swer to the Liliputian Ode, and the Ballad
on Ale are inserted from no less authority. As
the intrusion of Gondibert in this mifcellany,
if the apology already offered for it be not
thought sufficient by the critics, nothing far-
ther can be said here to excuse it, than to urge
the good intention of the Compiler, and his
repeated hopes that it may prove agreeable
to the generality of his readers.

With respect to the arrangement of these
pieces, it has been thought proper to dif-
fer them, as that all the plays should fill one
volume, while the poetical and miscellaneous
poems complete the other. — Our giving
any account of the author himself is ren-
dered unnecessary by the several accounts al-
ready

ADVERTISEMENT.

ready given of that great writer from the best authorities; and above all from his own anecdotes of himself in those letters that passed between him and his friend Pope, almost in every body's hands, and together with his performances, sufficiently mark his genius and difposition.

Having thus given the public all the account necessary of this work, the Editor submits the whole of the undertaking to their candour and impartiality, and as he pretends to no merit but such as is derived from his attempt to preserve those few pieces of the much admired Mr. Gay, and join them to the rest of his works from which they have been most injudiciously separated, so he expects no other praise than that which may be thought due to a faithful Compiler, to preserve which character, is in this case, the extent of his hopes, and the very summit of his ambition.

VOL. IV.

Y

The

THE CONTENES.

<table><tr><td>The Debate of the Gods</td><td>Page 31</td></tr><tr><td>The Story of Arachne</td><td>34</td></tr></table>

ORIGINAL POEMS.

<table><tr><td>* Wine : a Poem</td><td>46</td></tr><tr><td>* The Story of Cephifa</td><td>60</td></tr><tr><td>Molly Mog, or the Fair Maid of the Inn, A Ballad</td><td>67</td></tr><tr><td>A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow</td><td>72</td></tr><tr><td>On a Miscellany of Poems, to Bernard Lintott</td><td>77</td></tr><tr><td>A Ballad</td><td>82</td></tr><tr><td>A Ballad on Quadrille</td><td>85</td></tr><tr><td>A new Song of new Similes</td><td>89</td></tr><tr><td>Newgate's Garland : a new Ballad</td><td>94</td></tr><tr><td>The Quidnunki's : a Tale</td><td>97</td></tr><tr><td>Ay and No : a Fable</td><td>100</td></tr><tr><td>The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the lofs of Grildrig : a Pastoral</td><td>103</td></tr><tr><td>Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver</td><td>108</td></tr><tr><td>A</td><td></td></tr></table>

THE CONTENTS.

A Lilliputian Ode Page 114

Verfes to be placed under the Picture of Sir R—

B— 117

Bounce to Fop: an Epistle 120

* A Ballad on Ale 124

* An Elegiac Epistle to a Friend 130

* The Man-Mountain's Anfwer to the Lilliputian Verfes 136

* Gondibert, a Poem continued: Canto VII. 141

— Canto VIII. 155

— Canto IX. 170

Acis and Galatea, a Serenata Part I. 195

— Part II. 203

Epitaph of Bye-Words 215

Guardian, No. 11. 217

— No. 149. 224