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• Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

  John Gay

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

  Fables (Series 1), Fable 27

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• What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

  John Gay

  Jealousy, Believe, Frenzy

  John Gay (1761). “Poems on Several Occasions... by Mr. John Gay...”, p.236

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• One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

  John Gay

  Husband, Two, Wife

  John Gay (1818). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.41

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• Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

  John Gay

  Women, Lying, Believe

  John Gay (1791). “The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera. By John Gay. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. Regulated from the Prompt-book, ...”, p.65

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• Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.

  John Gay

  Women, Passion, Wind

  John Gay (1752). “Poems on Several Occasions: Epistles on several occasions. Tales. Eclogues. Miscellanies. Dione, a pastoral tragedy”, p.185

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• But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

  John Gay

  Life, Sweet, Kissing

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• Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.

  John Gay

  Blow, Daisies, Meadows

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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• Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

  John Gay

  Winter, Support, Maids

  John Gay (1826). “Gay's Fables and Other Poems: Cotton's Visions in Verse ; Moore's Fables for the Female Sex ; with Sketches of the Authors' Lives”, p.197

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• What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

  John Gay

  Love, Affection, Grows

  John Gay (1893). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: Translations, Prologues and epilogues, Fables, Poems from 'Gay's chair', Miscellaneous pieces, Songs and ballads”

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• There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

  John Gay

  Responsibility, Self, Dependence On Others

  John Gay, Chester Francis Burgess (1966). “The beggar's opera: and companion pieces”, Harlan Davidson

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• No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

  John Gay

  Victory, Retreat, Conquer

  John Gay (1983). “Dramatic Works”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

  John Gay

  Marigolds, Fairs

  John Gay (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.40

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• Fair words cost nothing.

  John Gay

  Cost, Civility, Fairs

  John Gay (1712). “The Mohocks, a farce [signed W.B.].”, p.4

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• What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

  John Gay

  Contentment, Cheerful, Each Day

  John Gay (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.17

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• Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

  John Gay

  Pride, Fool, Claims

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.95

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• In love we are all fools alike.

  John Gay

  Love, Fool

  John Christopher Pepusch, John Gay (1729). “The Beggar's Opera: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields : [Text of the Play]”, p.42

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• Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

  John Gay

  Learning, Son, Study

  John Gay (1824). “Fables and Other Poems, by John Gay: With a Biographical Sketch of the Author..”, p.100

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• 'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

  John Gay

  Art, Firsts, Taught

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.6

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• Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

  John Gay

  Math, Men, Views

  John Gay: Poetry and Prose Fables The Painter Who Pleased Nobody and Everybody 1. 1

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• Praising all alike, is praising none.

  John Gay

  Praise

  'A Letter to a Lady' l. 114

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• Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

  John Gay

  Giving, Heaven, Mind

  'Fables' (1738) 'The Vulture, the Sparrow, and Other Birds' l. 69 Behold the bright original appear. 'A Letter to a Lady' l. 85

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• Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

  John Gay

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

  John Gay (1770). “The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...”, p.27

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• My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.

  John Gay

  Grieving, Cold, Dear

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• The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

  John Gay

  Sweet, Lost, Treacle

  Nathaniel Lee, John Dryden, Arthur Murphy, George Farquhar, Hannah Cowley (1815). “Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy”

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• Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

  John Gay

  Ignorance, Virtue, Eternity

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.78

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