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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65464	Maggots, or, Poems on several subjects, never before handled by a schollar.	Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735.	1685 (1685)	Wing W1375; ESTC R33583	64,762	190

In ' s own defence the Author writes Because while this foul Maggot bites He nere Can rest in quiet Which makes him make Soe sad a face Heed beg your worship or your Grace Vnsight vnseen to buy it Maggots OR POEMS ON SEVERAL Subjects Never before Handled By a Schollar LONDON Printed for Iohn Dunton at the Sign of the Black Raven at the Corner of Princes Street near the Royal Exchange 1685. To the Honoured Mr. H. D. head-Head-Master of the Free-School in D in the County of D THE great Cowley forgets not to acknowledge his Master's Care and Kindness while at Westminster nor to come nearer was Mr. Creech much tardier in publishing his grateful Resentments of the same Obligations from Mr. Curganven You may Sir justly wonder what makes me drag in such Names into a Piece where there is hardly like to be besides one word of Earnest and perhaps not many of Sence You may be apt to judge me worthy not much less Punishment than that Comoedian who stole matter from the Sacred History to patch up his Farce But here I must unavoidably take Refuge at the old thumb'd Scrap Sic parvis componere magna Or to be more sincere this seem'd a pretty way of beginning I was fond of the Fancy and knew not where to get a better However tho' I ha' been bold enough to make the Similie I hardly dare be so sawcy I mean o' my side to apply it nor tho' Mr. D may be as noble a Field for Panegyric as any venture to disgrace him with prefixing here his Name or my little Praises 'T is enough that all who knew me when under his Tuition know what a fair share I enjoy'd of his undeserved Favours and that all who know so many famous Men as have had the happiness of their Education there are satisfy'd 't is my own fault I ha'n't made suitable Proficiency to what might be rationally expected from such an advantageous Foundation As to my addressing these to you though I can have no full Excuse yet my Presumption or Vanity may admit I hope some Alleviation This is my first form'd Birth of which tho' generally partaking all the Parent 's ill humours the greatest part of the World uses to be if not most fond yet most concern'd and no wonder therefore abstracting from its Value or Defects I am willing to provide for it and prefer it But tho' Gratitude commanded you should know the Author and that exact Respect he is still oblig'd to pay your former goodness yet ● was too conscious of the mean way I testify'd it in and the unworthiness of the Acknowledgment and had too tender a sense o● your Reputation to let your name publickly appear here before I knew what Reception these true Trifles might find in the World The most the best the all I can say for 'em is what I remember many a fair year past on such a kind of occasion Accept my Heart for Gift and all which will be the highest Honour can be pretended to by Sir Your Obliged Scbollar and Humble Servant c. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Gentle Reader IN the first place pray take notice this is addressed only to those that buy the Book for such as only borrow't my good Friend the Bookseller and I will ha' nothing to do with 'em For is there any Reason or Conscience in 't that he should write so many Letters to me about the business and I take so much pains for him besides some appurtenances of Money for Copy Printing c. only for a meer How d' ye In the next place since it comes uppermost I am to tell ye bonâ fide that is in English in verbo Sacerdotis that all here are my own pure Maggots the natural Issue of my Brain-pan bred and born there and only there Nay the Bookseller and I would have you to know these are no Scraps or Remains of I know not who which if you question or doubt you are to be fobb'd off again with a Prisoners-Basket of Collections I do ye to wit you are egregiously mistaken in the matter and prove it by a couple of sturdy arguments One that never a Subject here was ever treated of at least in this Method by Man Woman or Sucking Child from the beginning of the World to this present writing and so downwards T'other argument which you ' l find concludes very strongly is Because here wants a hundred and fifty Copper-plates precisely curiously engraven c. which any that 's but ordinarily verst in modern History knows to be as inseparable a mark of an omnium gatherum as the Cloven foot is of Mephistophiles If you have therefore the Luck to see one gaudy picture at the beginning which is even as it pleaseth Painter and Printer set your Heart at rest there and hope not for a scrap of one more between Gentle Reader and Finis But this is n't a Quarter of what you and I have to say to one another I should be an hard hearted Bruit of a Father indeed if I could be so cruel as to send this poor Brat of a Book abroad into the wide World without speaking so much as one good Word for 't What may be objected against it is either as to the matter or manner of 't and here tho' with Mr. Rhombus I should cut my Cheese into two particles yet since my Readers naturally fall into three parts I can't help 't to save my Life They are either the Wise or Fools who 't is likely may be disgruntled at the first or the Trimmers a Little o' one with t'other who may be offended at the Latter Now Quo ' the first 'T is light vain frothy airy here 's Time mispent and may be some pains on Subjects below the Gravity of a Man at least of a Christian to employ himself about So much for Ob enter Sol. If those Gentlemen will do me the favour to lend me an handful or two of Beard and be at the charge of grafting it ●n I 'll oblige my self to a speedy and thorough Reformation in that case Some time is no doubt allowable for meer Recreation this is certainly harmless I hope nothing will be found here that may either make me justly blush to own or another to read and I hope they ' l grant this kind of diversion a little more excusable than fooling away two or three years and it may be as many Reams of Paper in doleful Dittys of Philander and Phillis which uses to be the general work of all that are Prentices to a Verse-wright They have I believe heard of the Great St. Basils Encomium on a Pismire as well as the Diversions of many famous Persons on as Inconsiderable Subjects I dare not before them quote the Authority of the ingenious Preface to the Valentinian tho' hardly one of 'em but must own when young they have read both Plays and Romances But here 's somewhat I some time ago cabbag'd