This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728 Excerpt: ... best Sulpitius, Thou always comfort'st me. See here a Man, A Stranger to my Blood as well as Fortune; But meerly of his choice my Honour's Friend: What mighty things would he not do for me? Could'st thou, when Honourcall'd thee, whine for Love?--Sulp. How? my young Son of War in Love? with whom? Mar.Jun. A Woman, Sir. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728 Excerpt: ... best Sulpitius, Thou always comfort'st me. See here a Man, A Stranger to my Blood as well as Fortune; But meerly of his choice my Honour's Friend: What mighty things would he not do for me? Could'st thou, when Honourcall'd thee, whine for Love?--Sulp. How? my young Son of War in Love? with whom? Mar.Jun. A Woman, Sir.--I must not speak her N, m;. SulpM it be hopeless Love, use generous Means, And lay a kinder Beauty to the Wound. Take in a new Insection to the Heart, And the rank Poyson of the old will die-. Mar. Jun. Plantane-Leaf is excellent for that., Sulp. For what? Mar. Jun. For broken Shins. Sulp. Why? art thou mad? Mar. Jun. Not Mad, but bound morethaiaMaJ m: n's, Consin'd to Limits, kept without my Food, Whipt and tormented. Pi'ythee do not wake me; Let me dream on Sulp. Oh! the small Queen of Fairies Is busie in his Brains; the Mab that comes Draw, n by. a little Team of smallest Atoms Over Men's Noses as they lie asleep, In a Chariot of an empty Hazel-nut, Made by a Joyner-Squirrel: in which State She gallops Night by Night through Lovers Bra'ns; And then how wickedly they dream, all know. Sometimes she courses o'er a Courtier's Nose, I s And And then he dreams of begging an Eflatr, Sometimes Ihe hurries o'er a Soldier's Neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign Throats; Ot Breaches, Ambuseado's, temper'd Blades, Of good rich Winter-quarters, and false Musters. Sometimes she tweaks a Poet by the Ear, And then dreams he Of Pane gyricks, flatt'ring Dedications, And mighty Presents from the Lord knows vrho, But wakes as empty at he laid him down. Sbe has been with Sylla too, and he dreams now Of nothing but a Consulship. Mar.Sea. A Rattle! Give the fantastick giddy Boy a Rattle; The puling Fondling should not want a Play-thing. A Consulship? Sulf. B
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Good. Hardcover. 3 Vols complete. Published 1757. Consisting of his plays, poems, and letters. 3 Vols, 12mo. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Ptway in Volume I. Contemporary finely-speckled calf, red title labels. Minor rubbing around the edges, a nice set......We ship daily from our warehouse.
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Good. Joints cracked, hand-made paper, embossing & guilding faded. 12 mo, old calf, joints cracked, hand-made paper, vol 2 & 3 2 volume Set Volume the second, Volume the Third, 12mo, old calf, joints cracked, hand-made paper, First Collected Edition, 2 vol. Volume the Second, containing: Friendship in Fashion, The Soldier's Fortune, The Atheist, or the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune Volume the Third, containing: The Orphan: o, r The Unhappy Marriage. A Tragedy, The History and Fall of Caius Marius, Venice Preserv'd, Poems and Letters Printed for: C. Bathurst, T. Waller, J. Rivington, L. Hawes, W. Clarke, R. Collins, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, C. Corbett, W. Nicoll, T. Cadell, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, J. Roberts, T. Davies, T. Becket, M. Reeves M. DCC. LXVIII
