The muse in good humour: or, a collection of the best poems, comic tales, choice fables, enigmas, &c. From the most eminent poets. With some Originals. Part I. Containing, Bashful Ben. The Ladies Looking Glass. The Merchant's Tale. Desire and Possession. The Eachentment. The Wife of Bath. Truth and Falshood. Simple Simon. The imperfect Enjoyment. The English Padlock. The Vision. Middle aged Man and his two Mistresses. Sauntring Jark and idle Joan. Baueis and Philemon. The Original of Matrimony. Susannah and the two Elders. Female Virtue. Love Disarmed. Delia's Wedding-Night. Vertumnus and Pomona. The Conscientious Keeper. The Fox and Dragon. The Button-Hole. The Elbow Chair. Love attones for little Crimes. Saying and Doing are two Things. Woman's Logicle. The Substitute Father. To Cloe. A Fragment. The Exorcism. The Widow's Excuse. Falling in Love. Balaam's Pedigree. The Happy Night. A Game at Put.

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  • The muse in good humour: or, a collection of the best poems, comic tales, choice fables, enigmas, &c. From the most eminent poets. With some Originals. Part I. Containing, Bashful Ben. The Ladies Looking Glass. The Merchant's Tale. Desire and Possession. The Eachentment. The Wife of Bath. Truth and Falshood. Simple Simon. The imperfect Enjoyment. The English Padlock. The Vision. Middle aged Man and his two Mistresses. Sauntring Jark and idle Joan. Baueis and Philemon. The Original of Matrimony. Susannah and the two Elders. Female Virtue. Love Disarmed. Delia's Wedding-Night. Vertumnus and Pomona. The Conscientious Keeper. The Fox and Dragon. The Button-Hole. The Elbow Chair. Love attones for little Crimes. Saying and Doing are two Things. Woman's Logicle. The Substitute Father. To Cloe. A Fragment. The Exorcism. The Widow's Excuse. Falling in Love. Balaam's Pedigree. The Happy Night. A Game at Put.
  • Muse in good humour. Vol.2. Part 1.
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Imprint
London: printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXLV. [1745]
Publication year
1745
ESTC No.
T86635
Grub Street ID
306765
Description
[2],ii,174p.,plate : ill. ; 12⁰
Note
Part 1 of vol.2, containing 'A collection of comic tales', with its own titlepage, pagination and register.