Edited by Rev. Chr. Wordsworth. 319 



Friends.' He is one to a[ll] Mankind. I have obligations to hira myself 

 which I shall always acknowledge. If you see him in your way to Devonshire 

 be so kind as to tell him that I frequently think of him with pleasure." 



[Seal, in red wax : Cupid plucking (?) a rose from a briar bush. Motto 

 " Nul Plaisir sans Peine." ] 



Endorsed : " Duck. June 14th, [17]47." 



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In preparing the following rather sketchy bibliographical list I 

 have received valuable help from the Rev. H. F. Stewart, Trin. 

 Coll., and Mr. F. G. Plaistowe, Librarian of Queens' Coll., Cam- 

 bridge; also from Dr. J. Maitland Thomson, Keeper of the 

 Records, Edinburgh, Mrs. R. H. New (Miss A. F. Parker), Oxford, 

 and Miss E. Margaret Thompson, at the British Museum, and from 

 the Rev. E. J. Bodington, Potterne, Devizes, as well as from our 

 Secretary, the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 



Duck, Stephen. Poems on Several Subjects. Lond., 1730, 8vo. British 

 Museum, 1346,^. 2(5). 



Poems on Several Subjects, written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher 

 in a barn in the county of Wilts, which were publicly read by the Earl 

 of Macclesfield to her majesty; second edition. Lond., 1730, 8vo. 

 Bodl. G. Pamph., 62. 



' I suppose this was the famous W. Oliver, M.D., of Pembroke College, 

 Cambridge, physician to Bath Hospital, inventor of the famous biscuits still 

 known as " Bath Olivers," biographer of Beau Nash, and friend of Pope, 

 and of the wealthy Ralph Allen, who did "good by stealth, and blush'd to 

 find it fame." Allen had been a letter-carrier in Marlborough district ; in- 

 vented the system of cross-posts for England and Wales, and was immortalised 

 by Fielding in two of his novels. 



It was, perhaps, to Dr. Oliver that Duck referred, in his " Journey to 

 . . . Bath" &c. : — 



"A Son of ^sculapius here I meet; 

 Polite his Manners, and his Temper sweet : 

 His sage Discourse, hath soft persuasive Art, 

 Charm'd the pleas'd Ear, till it improv'd the Heart : 

 Bright Truth and T'irtiie were his lovely Theme ; 

 Which seem'd more lovely when describ'd by him." 



