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BOOK IV. Ep. 78.
1 With lace bedizen'd comes the man,
2 And I must dine with lady Anne.
3 A silver service loads the board,
4 Of eatables a slender hoard.
5 "Your pride, and not your victuals spare;
6 "I came to dine, and not to stare.
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Author: John Hoadly
Themes:
food; drink; money; wealth
Genres:
epigram; imitation; translation; paraphrase
References:
DMI 27753
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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. V. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], p. 286. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.005) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)
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- BOOK XII. Ep 103. ()
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- MARTIAL, Book IV. Ep. 87. ()
- On the Friendship of two young Ladies, 1730. ()
- PROLOGUE to COMUS, Perform'd for the Benefit of the General Hospital at BATH, 1756. ()
- To the Rev. Mr. J. S. 1731. ()
- VERSES said to be fixed on the Gate of the LOUVRE at PARIS. 1751. ()
- VERSES under the Prints of Mr. HOGARTH'S Rake's Progress, 1735. ()