Potential Titles: John Gay
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somethingdarkerThe lion first control - John Gay "The Council of Horses"
Still the tiger's famished growl - John Gay "The Council of Horses"
The devil at his fingers' ends - John Gay "The Jugglers"
With me dispute the prize - John Gay "The Jugglers"
His little boxes change the grain - John Gay "The Jugglers"
With heady liquor stored - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Bids Ambition hold a wand - John Gay "The Jugglers"
From all pockets fills her box - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Now and then I cheat the throng - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Who seeks to pluck the fragrant rose - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
From each barren weed that grows expects the grape - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
They ask no vows of sacred truth - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Gold can the frowns of scorn remove - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
The below snippets are from a heavily edited/altered version of the poems. I think the edits are mostly grammatical and vocabulary related, but I would not be surprised if there were also tweaks for moral lesson purposes and some Bowlderization. There's about a century and a half between the original publication and the adapted version I read on Project Gutenberg.
Unvexed by pettier cares of gain - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Unravelled of customs half a mundane sphere - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For both will cheat the most discerning - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
With filthy venom in the bite - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
May seldom hear the voice of truth - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Flattery is the nurse of crime - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
To rob the tigress of her game - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
My vassals fear me on my throne - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And bleaching bones now strew the land - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Knew each lord and lady's passion - John Gay "Fable II: The Spaniel and Chameleon" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Fostered every vice in fashion - John Gay "Fable II: The Spaniel and Chameleon" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Sent me here to cool my fire - John Gay "Fable II: The Spaniel and Chameleon" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The fairies granted her the prayer - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Would change places with sons of clay and human races - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
But should we change with imps of clay - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Opened the trap-door at his feet - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Up flew the murmurs of creation - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Citing all to answer the imperial call - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
What are these ills which trouble air? - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That lost, and all my chance has flown - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Had not sly Reynard's wits to lay a plot - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The cock desired the heron's flight - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The heron wished for greater might - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And fish would feed upon the plain - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
None their ambitious wish could smother - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And banish honour from the mind - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gold raised the sword midst kith and kin - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Be accused because its virtues are abused - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who have sold their soul's integrity - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Whene'er you hear a rogue commended - John Gay "Fable VII: Lion, Fox, and Gander" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Be sure some mischief is intended - John Gay "Fable VII: Lion, Fox, and Gander" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Foxes no doubt will rise in station - John Gay "Fable VII: Lion, Fox, and Gander" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Caused him to break the peace of kings - John Gay "Fable IX: The Bull and the Mastiff" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And he a prince baptized in fire - John Gay "Fable IX: The Bull and the Mastiff" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Demons that delight in slaughter - John Gay "Fable IX: The Bull and the Mastiff" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
View monsters which Adam never knew - John Gay "Fable X: Elephant and Bookseller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Run unprovoked to battle - John Gay "Fable X: Elephant and Bookseller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For custom conquers fear and shame - John Gay "Fable XIII: The Tamed Fawn" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Misfortunes serve to make us wise - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Practise new mischiefs all their days - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Soars to the heights of foreign vices - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Clutched within a miser's hold - John Gay "Fable XVI: Pin and Needle" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A hungry wolf had thinned the fold - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The thefts of night regaled his day - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
By chance found the marauder's den - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The rats by night the mischief did - John Gay "Fable XXI: The Ratcatcher and Cats" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Though one prey we both pursue - John Gay "Fable XXI: The Ratcatcher and Cats" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who holds friendship with a knave - John Gay "Fable XXII: Old Dame and Cats" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That thundering onwards stirs up mud - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A parrot's privilege forbidden - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Parrots for prattling words are prized - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And with good interest pay their debt - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Her hissing snakes proclaim her spite - John Gay "Fable XXVIII: The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Summons up the fiends of night - John Gay "Fable XXVIII: The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And prompt to do what she command - John Gay "Fable XXVIII: The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The dignity of owls they knew - John Gay "FableXXXII: The Owls and Sparrow" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
They placed us on Minerva's helm - John Gay "FableXXXII: The Owls and Sparrow" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Builds schemes for others' ruin - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Wandered with heavy hours on hand - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
They practise frauds in every shape - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Old Nick upon his fingers tended - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gold from empty bags in torrents rolled - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
By which Vice cheated eye and ear - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Let him first control the lion - John Gay "Fable XLIII: Council of Horses" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Each performed his part assigned - John Gay "Fable XLIII: Council of Horses" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who builds his fame on ruins of another's name - John Gay "Fable XLV: Rose and Poet" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
To snatch at honors not their own - John Gay "Fable XLV: Rose and Poet" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Blurs not with modesty his merit - John Gay "Fable XLVI: Cur, Horse, and Shepherd's Dog" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Will know that jokes are often paid in kind - John Gay "Fable XLVI: Cur, Horse, and Shepherd's Dog" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The cry of hounds fell on her ear - John Gay "Fable L: Hare and Many Friends" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And doubled to mislead the hounds - John Gay "Fable L: Hare and Many Friends" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The sophisticated tongue of lawyers can turn right to wrong - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Language by your skill made pliant - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And justice absent from your session - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Where eloquence takes either side - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
All wills past muster, undisputed - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
It is the guilty soul that speaks - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
On the fox he flies, the self-convicted felon dies - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Spare my jest and save my ears - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Our court schemes are too profound for Machiavel himself - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Have trodden low law, king, and people - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gets nothing save its own regard - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And arrogance well recommends them - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Plagues like these as storms may lower - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
But power is nothing, sans the will - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Where sycophants applauded schemes - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Earthward one dingy drop descends - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Spoke their compliments and duties - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Less were their train of knaves and fools - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Law and public good to be the pole-stars - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Things there were no need to mention - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Bears allusion unto State affairs - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
If hands corrupted harm the nation - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Divulge all matters to all eyes - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Proclaim to winds state mysteries - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
These secrets told are ruin - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Determined his own scope to know - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Without the compass, sail, and oar - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Pride and presumption standing checked - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
To aid the search for pride's eviction - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
By ignorance is pride increased - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Ambition soars to rule the nation - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
No nonsense will offend their ear - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
He took his province from the fox - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
When envy snarls and slanders rail - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
With soul adverse to the position - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
If he could not his foes disgrace - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For monarchs must be kept deluded - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
How servants wound a master's name - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
If Fortune's wheel devolved on merit - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Fortune's frown still perseveres to hold you down - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Villains would compass it by guilt - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Your luxury might break all bounds - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Would avarice and false applause weigh in the balance - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gnawed by corruption, wanting rest - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Tottering upon Ambition's tower - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Nor grumble more like one demented - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Stands with fair plenty in her train - John Gay "Fable LVIII: Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
We all should starve when north winds blew - John Gay "Fable LVIII: Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That present crimes do equal those of former times - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And win your way past comprehending - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A hog o'er cabbage said his benison - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The wolf was won by haunch of venison - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Whose conscience honesty ne'er knew - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who dare to ask or take a bribe - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
'Tis said that prudence changes friends - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Many foes, behind, before, beneath your nose - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
In church or state so overflow with froth and hate - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Bequeathed with store of honeycomb - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Proclaim our virtue by their hate - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That I the flatterer's style reject - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Is not the tree known by its fruit? - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Viewing ignoble things with scorn - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Your fame is consequent on worth - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Democracy and the Devil will soon put all upon one level - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
'Twixt you and us there is no barrier - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That you might pay your duns and debt - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Fools are the game which knaves pursue - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The wood must make the gamester's losses good - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Cast with the axe their honours down - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
They trust me to their fingers' ends - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The knaves own all her votaries for slaves - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Beneath his grievous load oppressed - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And sleep the time out in dependence - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Till slumber lays us on her shelves - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Time which devours, eats up the demons - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
When Time overtook them in his walk - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Descends, quite unencumbered by his friends - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Have every pettier want defied - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Without me they would be a dream - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
His heir will lavish them with play - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The tide of joy they never tasted - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Nor care to make each hour their own - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Sent to school to grow impertinent - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Learnt by rote dogmatic rules - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
You should have let him be an ass - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Will have the pickings of my bones - John Gay "Fable LXV: Cookmaid, Turnspit, and Ox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Prone to reject a verse benign - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
How the moon makes the planets pale - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Those eyes, in truth, are only clay - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Possesses dust as frail as mine - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Commingling in the dust and doom - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
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Still the tiger's famished growl - John Gay "The Council of Horses"
The devil at his fingers' ends - John Gay "The Jugglers"
With me dispute the prize - John Gay "The Jugglers"
His little boxes change the grain - John Gay "The Jugglers"
With heady liquor stored - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Bids Ambition hold a wand - John Gay "The Jugglers"
From all pockets fills her box - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Now and then I cheat the throng - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Who seeks to pluck the fragrant rose - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
From each barren weed that grows expects the grape - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
They ask no vows of sacred truth - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Gold can the frowns of scorn remove - Mr. Gay "Song [The sun was sunk beneath the hills]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
The below snippets are from a heavily edited/altered version of the poems. I think the edits are mostly grammatical and vocabulary related, but I would not be surprised if there were also tweaks for moral lesson purposes and some Bowlderization. There's about a century and a half between the original publication and the adapted version I read on Project Gutenberg.
Unvexed by pettier cares of gain - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Unravelled of customs half a mundane sphere - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For both will cheat the most discerning - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
With filthy venom in the bite - John Gay "Introduction [to Fables]" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
May seldom hear the voice of truth - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Flattery is the nurse of crime - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
To rob the tigress of her game - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
My vassals fear me on my throne - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And bleaching bones now strew the land - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Knew each lord and lady's passion - John Gay "Fable II: The Spaniel and Chameleon" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Fostered every vice in fashion - John Gay "Fable II: The Spaniel and Chameleon" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Sent me here to cool my fire - John Gay "Fable II: The Spaniel and Chameleon" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The fairies granted her the prayer - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Would change places with sons of clay and human races - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
But should we change with imps of clay - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Opened the trap-door at his feet - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Up flew the murmurs of creation - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Citing all to answer the imperial call - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
What are these ills which trouble air? - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That lost, and all my chance has flown - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Had not sly Reynard's wits to lay a plot - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The cock desired the heron's flight - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The heron wished for greater might - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And fish would feed upon the plain - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
None their ambitious wish could smother - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And banish honour from the mind - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gold raised the sword midst kith and kin - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Be accused because its virtues are abused - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who have sold their soul's integrity - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Whene'er you hear a rogue commended - John Gay "Fable VII: Lion, Fox, and Gander" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Be sure some mischief is intended - John Gay "Fable VII: Lion, Fox, and Gander" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Foxes no doubt will rise in station - John Gay "Fable VII: Lion, Fox, and Gander" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Caused him to break the peace of kings - John Gay "Fable IX: The Bull and the Mastiff" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And he a prince baptized in fire - John Gay "Fable IX: The Bull and the Mastiff" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Demons that delight in slaughter - John Gay "Fable IX: The Bull and the Mastiff" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
View monsters which Adam never knew - John Gay "Fable X: Elephant and Bookseller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Run unprovoked to battle - John Gay "Fable X: Elephant and Bookseller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For custom conquers fear and shame - John Gay "Fable XIII: The Tamed Fawn" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Misfortunes serve to make us wise - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Practise new mischiefs all their days - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Soars to the heights of foreign vices - John Gay "Fable XIV: The Monkey Who Had Seen the World" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Clutched within a miser's hold - John Gay "Fable XVI: Pin and Needle" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A hungry wolf had thinned the fold - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The thefts of night regaled his day - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
By chance found the marauder's den - John Gay "Fable XVII: Shepherd's Dog and Wolf" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The rats by night the mischief did - John Gay "Fable XXI: The Ratcatcher and Cats" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Though one prey we both pursue - John Gay "Fable XXI: The Ratcatcher and Cats" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who holds friendship with a knave - John Gay "Fable XXII: Old Dame and Cats" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That thundering onwards stirs up mud - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A parrot's privilege forbidden - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Parrots for prattling words are prized - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And with good interest pay their debt - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Her hissing snakes proclaim her spite - John Gay "Fable XXVIII: The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Summons up the fiends of night - John Gay "Fable XXVIII: The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And prompt to do what she command - John Gay "Fable XXVIII: The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The dignity of owls they knew - John Gay "FableXXXII: The Owls and Sparrow" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
They placed us on Minerva's helm - John Gay "FableXXXII: The Owls and Sparrow" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Builds schemes for others' ruin - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Wandered with heavy hours on hand - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
They practise frauds in every shape - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Old Nick upon his fingers tended - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gold from empty bags in torrents rolled - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
By which Vice cheated eye and ear - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Let him first control the lion - John Gay "Fable XLIII: Council of Horses" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Each performed his part assigned - John Gay "Fable XLIII: Council of Horses" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who builds his fame on ruins of another's name - John Gay "Fable XLV: Rose and Poet" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
To snatch at honors not their own - John Gay "Fable XLV: Rose and Poet" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Blurs not with modesty his merit - John Gay "Fable XLVI: Cur, Horse, and Shepherd's Dog" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Will know that jokes are often paid in kind - John Gay "Fable XLVI: Cur, Horse, and Shepherd's Dog" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The cry of hounds fell on her ear - John Gay "Fable L: Hare and Many Friends" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And doubled to mislead the hounds - John Gay "Fable L: Hare and Many Friends" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The sophisticated tongue of lawyers can turn right to wrong - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Language by your skill made pliant - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And justice absent from your session - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Where eloquence takes either side - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
All wills past muster, undisputed - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
It is the guilty soul that speaks - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
On the fox he flies, the self-convicted felon dies - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Spare my jest and save my ears - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Our court schemes are too profound for Machiavel himself - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Have trodden low law, king, and people - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gets nothing save its own regard - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And arrogance well recommends them - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Plagues like these as storms may lower - John Gay "Fable LII: Vulture, Sparrow, and Birds" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
But power is nothing, sans the will - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Where sycophants applauded schemes - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Earthward one dingy drop descends - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Spoke their compliments and duties - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Less were their train of knaves and fools - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Law and public good to be the pole-stars - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Things there were no need to mention - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Bears allusion unto State affairs - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
If hands corrupted harm the nation - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Divulge all matters to all eyes - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Proclaim to winds state mysteries - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
These secrets told are ruin - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Determined his own scope to know - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Without the compass, sail, and oar - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Pride and presumption standing checked - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
To aid the search for pride's eviction - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
By ignorance is pride increased - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Ambition soars to rule the nation - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
No nonsense will offend their ear - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
He took his province from the fox - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
When envy snarls and slanders rail - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
With soul adverse to the position - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
If he could not his foes disgrace - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For monarchs must be kept deluded - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
How servants wound a master's name - John Gay "Fable LVI: Squire and Cur" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
If Fortune's wheel devolved on merit - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Fortune's frown still perseveres to hold you down - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Villains would compass it by guilt - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Your luxury might break all bounds - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Would avarice and false applause weigh in the balance - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Gnawed by corruption, wanting rest - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Tottering upon Ambition's tower - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Nor grumble more like one demented - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Stands with fair plenty in her train - John Gay "Fable LVIII: Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
We all should starve when north winds blew - John Gay "Fable LVIII: Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That present crimes do equal those of former times - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And win your way past comprehending - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A hog o'er cabbage said his benison - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The wolf was won by haunch of venison - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Whose conscience honesty ne'er knew - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who dare to ask or take a bribe - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
'Tis said that prudence changes friends - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Many foes, behind, before, beneath your nose - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
In church or state so overflow with froth and hate - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Bequeathed with store of honeycomb - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Proclaim our virtue by their hate - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That I the flatterer's style reject - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Is not the tree known by its fruit? - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Viewing ignoble things with scorn - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Your fame is consequent on worth - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Democracy and the Devil will soon put all upon one level - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
'Twixt you and us there is no barrier - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
That you might pay your duns and debt - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Fools are the game which knaves pursue - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The wood must make the gamester's losses good - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Cast with the axe their honours down - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
They trust me to their fingers' ends - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The knaves own all her votaries for slaves - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Beneath his grievous load oppressed - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And sleep the time out in dependence - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Till slumber lays us on her shelves - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Time which devours, eats up the demons - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
When Time overtook them in his walk - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Descends, quite unencumbered by his friends - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Have every pettier want defied - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Without me they would be a dream - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
His heir will lavish them with play - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The tide of joy they never tasted - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Nor care to make each hour their own - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Sent to school to grow impertinent - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Learnt by rote dogmatic rules - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
You should have let him be an ass - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Will have the pickings of my bones - John Gay "Fable LXV: Cookmaid, Turnspit, and Ox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Prone to reject a verse benign - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
How the moon makes the planets pale - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Those eyes, in truth, are only clay - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Possesses dust as frail as mine - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Commingling in the dust and doom - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
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