The Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Bishop, A.M. ...: To which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Volume 2

Samuel Bishop

A. Strahan and sold by Messrs. Cadell and Davies ... Mr. Robson ... Mr. Walter [and 9 others], 1796

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VERS ERSES fent with a Copy of Moores Fables to Miſs Mary Palmer	3

To Mifs Dickins with a preſent of Moores Fables II	16

To the Same on another Anniverſary of the fame Day With	22

To the Same with a Pafte Buckle for an Handkerchief	29

EPIGRAMS Page	34

When Tom calld in one day on Ned	35

To the Same with a WorkBag of Silk and Paper	36

You may talk of your houſes of Commons and Lords	41

A Woman fatirifts have averrd	280

Sick of his firſt imperious bride	281

To bounce more boldly and look bigger	282

The world can nothing fure were told	283

Beyond? and who fhall draw that veil ?	284

In formâ pauperis if a plaintiff plead	285

Your fatirical witlings ibid 180 Montaigne once took it in his head	286

Whoeer cheats me in purchaſe	287

To the Same with a Silver Tea Pot and other Plate	42

To the Same with fome Table Furniture of Cut Glaſs	49

To the Same with the Authors Portrait	55

Women it ſeems whoeer pay fcot and lot	60

To the Same with a complete Set of Worceſter China	63

To the Same with a PocketBook	67

To the Same with a Gold Watch 7༠	74

To the Same in anſwer to a letter written to him during his abfence	82

To the Same On her defiring to know what fort of a Journey he	88

To the Same On her having accidentally hurt her Eye	94

Kitten	102

To the Same Shot on the point of an Arrow into his Garden	115

To the Rev Mr Fayting Wotton Auguſt 1779	121

To the Rev Dr Altham Thanks for a prefent of a Pig	131

To Mr and Mrs Scott on their Marriage	139

To the Rev Mofes Porter on the Day his Daughter was born	146

Character of the Rev Nicholas Fayting	152

Inſcription deſigned for a Bath at the Rookery near Wotton in Surry	158

A Vicar in a certain Vale	161

A Dutchmans breeches in full taſte	163

If by Plus minus I exprefs ibid 4 Who knows the end of vile corruptions reign?	164

Phyfic of old her entry made ibid 6 Before you truſt men try em	166

Would you run down a courtier	167

In Rome of old her Titus bore	168

Three things three newlaid taxes crave	169

At the board of our Barons ibid 13 A needy curate has the jokers fay	170

To Childermasday fome object ibid 15 Celias mouth opens with her eyes	171

April the firſt ſtands markd by cuſtoms rules	172

When Euclio a fnug fuddle chofe ibid 18 A thouſand objects of defire	175

What dye think of this Pig?	176

In Epigram would you excel? ibid 21 Im fick faid Jack I faint I die	177

For fubjects of exalted praiſe	179

No plate had John and Joan to hoard	180

In queft of Afiatic ftores	182

Three ſtrangers blaze amidſt a bonfires revel	183

Virtues and faſhions jointly ſhare	184

Celia her fexs foible ſhuns	194

Friar Bacon formd by ſpells	208

Fame fays there are we hope fame fibs	214

Officious friends when things go wrong	220

When floth puts urgent buſineſs by	222

Law neer could give the good relief	223

If Letfoms Mangell Wertzel root	224

Read Read the threadbare poet cries	225

Tom Whiffle changes every day	226

We blame too juſtly modern times ibid ΙΟΙ IOI Theres nothing new beneath the fun	227

Twixt thofe Poets of old	228

When Charles the Firſt the ſceptre bore	229

O Yes if wags or critics dare	231

From fenny damps afcends a fire	232

Two broad blue eyes that roll and wink	233

Aye Honeſtys a jewel Richard cryd	234

Pope ſpeaking once of Zemblas coaſt ibid III If Nature never acts a part in vain	235

What practic rule	236

See ftretchd on natures couch of grafs ibid 114 While diamonds with ſo rich effect	237

Your Flemiſh painters	238

Full up the folar blaze of light	239

When reformation men adviſe	240

When in old Rome the bridegroom and the bride	241

Ye daily dirty fcandalfcrapers	242

Only	243

Our anceſtors who ſcience taught ibid 124 When Jove and the Giants	244

The Ruffian huſbands as were told	245

Hail great reformer of mens fhoes	246

Wheneer the makers of our laws	247

To our ruin point blank quoth the patriot ibid 130 Mankind tho fatiriſts with jobations weary us	248

Expert phyfiognomiſts teach us to trace ibid 132 To a noted optician a grave ſober man	249

The ſtory of the wandering Jew	250

Some connoiffeurs in France of late	251

To ſerve five churches in a day	252

A public fpirited peer were told	253

Tho far from Britain Britains worthieſt pride	254

From any Convent a Laybrother take ibid 141 The more you give the more you may	255

In our forefathers day	256

Refolvd all rival noiſe to drown	257

In China when an huſbands praiſe ibid 146 Falsehood and Truth in rival race	258

Juſtice a Woman to an Emperor cryd	260

Sir Stately from his chariot nods	261

The diſciples of Galen ibid 150 Perhaps ſaid a doctor one day to his friend	262

Tho George with refpect to the wrong and the right	263

Spinſter and Miniſter Knight and Dame	264

A Cowards heart in common ſpeech is	265

Of great connections with great men	266

Tim Crabs admonitions run all in one tone	267

To cure the Gout one quack forfooth	268

When prenticd fops in tafty fit ibid 160 A barber in a Boroughtown	269

16г In indenture or deed	270

Two Grecian Sophs with names for verſe unfit ibid 163 In many an inn along the road	273

By a legal decifion twas lately agreed	274

Sunday which by divine beheft ibid 166 Diagoras an Athenian wight	275

While Johnſon the Lives of our Poets composd	276

Virtues a fund of unexhauſted ſtore	277

Our glorious Queen Befs ibid 170 Were often told of Scotchmens ſecond fight	278

To make a plumpudding	279

Old women in old times were ſeen	288

184	289

Of old their fullbottoms diſtinguiſhd the fops	290

A tribe of ſtargazers	291

The popifh bigot looks death in the face ibid 188 If you eer go to Oxford	292

A Scribbler thought fit tother day	293

From the Catholic Faith	294

Tis ftrange to fee how more or leſs ibid 192 A Village thief in penitent ſtrain	295

You remember Prince Volfcius hiphop in the play	296

bis Amongſt the many ſtrange conceits	297

A Veteran gambler in a tempeft caught	298

A fpecimen brief of foreign wit to fhew ibid 196 A Quack in Greece	299

The critics of a former day	300

In Egypt once the great were told	301

The Conſtable of a country town	302

Bamboozling the credulous vulgar below	303

A Fool and Knave with different views	304

afkd grave Corydon Celias age	305

A Goofe my good old grandam faid	307

If I fwerve an hairsbreadth ibid 206 Poor Dick when chatty and when dumb	308

To fcape litigious follys headstrong ruin ibid 208 In Miltons and in Drydens time	309

In patient mood while King Alphonfus heard	310

Does Shakeſpeare juſter praiſe obtain ibid 211 The votes all closdthe books compard	311

A Fool had let ſome ſarcaſms fall	312

Eager fome doleful tale to quote	314

Grammarians Ye whofe critic cenfures maul	315

Some tribes we read in Elians book ibid 216 Twas faid of old by fome queer cur	316

Sir Hudibras with a ſingle ſpur	317

Twas not fo in my time furly Grumio exclaims	318

In the lottery of life	319

A careful prieſt the ſtory goes ibid 221 When quacks as quacks may by good luck	320

The lovefick maid in Bedlams cells who pines	321

By the ſtatutes pro forma in Oxford tis ſaid ibid 224 All things faid John one day to Joyce	322

When Athens in the age of Grecian fame	323

In Celias face fee coxcomb Gellio ſtare	324

While Britains arms by fea and land	325

Traditions tale time out of mind	326

Our fmarts fo much refind the modern ſpeech is	327

To be or not to bewas Hamlets doubt	328

When weddings in newspapers ſtyle are ſet forth	330

The boy with truly philofophic thumb	331

Our faſhionable belles and beaus	332

How ſtrange faid once a philofophic Greek ibid 237 Beneath the funs meridian ray	333

To fave your bones and bones and yet indulge your wit	334

Our grumbling politicians cry	335

To each new huſband and new ſpouſe	336

Spruce Miſs by novels fets her notions right	338

See where unhousd at eafe reclind	339

Britain	340

The Eaſtern ſwain whofe amorous eyes	341

Athwart the deepning fhades of night	342

The World is all appearance mere outfide	343

Fixd on our newbuilt Theatres height	344

Thro the ſtreets on Mayday	345

Why fleeps benumbd th accompliſhd mind	346

The modern philoſophy makes a great clatter	347

Old Leſbia with hardly a tooth in her head	348

In ten long columns of debate	349

All Turkeys moſques aloft in air	350

Mark how th expiring tapers rays	351

An elbow were in proverbs told	352

Would you th extremes of human contraſt fix?	353

You fhew the Gipfey trull your hand ibid 263 In modern anarchys reign abfurd	354

fhudder if perchance I meet	355

At each mans birth fay thoſe who Mahomet quote ibid 266 Ceaſe John at this outrageous rate	356

In days of claffic fame philofophys toil	357

Deſtiny by ſmall but powerful ſprings	358

The Chineſe have a word	359

Thro lifes whole range ſay what we will	361

By two horns and a tail and by one cloven foot	362

In Wales full many a grave divine	363

Five Countries from five favourite difhes frame	364

John and his wife	365

Quoth	366

Some forty fummers now have paſt	367

With much pretence but little love the while	369

Proud as a peer poor as a bard	370

A fingle acorns cup experiment ſhows	371

True Blue tis faid will never ſtain	373

When Bride and Bridegroom ready ſtand	374

When a dull drowſy orator	375

We read in Romes hiſtoric page	376

Fierce foe to the fly by an inſtinct inbred	377

A Fool the popular proverb ſhows	378

Tradition long fince if we heed what it faith	379

Texprefs how oft th apparent weak	380

Painters by cuſtom immemorial	381

Go to the bee and thence bring home	382

A Phyſical fage who tried to explore ibid 294 Within the papal juriſdiction	383

When a pamphlet comes out	384

Where gently wandring rills furround	385

Genius too oft beneath adverfitys frown	387

VOL II

Common terms and phrases

addreſs ANNIVERSARY applauſe AUGUST 28 Baron of Beef becauſe beſt BISHOP boaſt BREVIS ESSE LABORO Broomstick Chair of Mafter CLODIO cloſe conſcious courſe dear Derry difplays e'er eaſe EPIGRAM eſteem Ev'n faid fame faſhions felf fhall fhort fhow figh firſt fome ftand ftill fuch fure GEORGE STEPNEY Glafs glow gold GOLDER'S HILL grace heart JAMES TOWNLEY juft juſt laft laſt leaſt likeneſs Love luftre Mafter MERLIN merit moſt Muſe muſt myſelf NOVA FERT ANIMUS o'er paſt plac'd pleaſe praiſe preſent pride purſue QUÆRE PEREGRINUM QUALIS AB INCEPTO QUOD PETIS raiſe Rofe ſaid ſay ſee Senfe ſenſe ſhare ſhe ſhine ſhort ſhould ſhows ſkill ſpeak STAT SUA CUIQUE ſtate ſtill TABLE FURNITURE Tafte Taſte theſe THOMAS CLARE thoſe thro TOWNLEY Truth Twas Twill uſe Verſe Virtues votive Gift Whate'er where'er whofe Whoſe wiſh Worth Κρύσεα χαλκείων

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Title	The Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Bishop, A.M. ...: To which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Volume 2 The Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Bishop, A.M. ...: To which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Samuel Bishop
Author	Samuel Bishop
Publisher	A. Strahan and sold by Messrs. Cadell and Davies ... Mr. Robson ... Mr. Walter [and 9 others], 1796
Original from	Indiana University
Digitized	30 Apr 2012

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