320 On a. Letter from Steijhen Buck. 



Poems on several subjects . . . Third edition. Lond., 1730, 8vo. Bodl. 

 G. Pamph., 1617, 5. Brit. Museum, 11631, e. 17. 



The Third Edition corrected. Lond., Printed for J. Roberts . . . 

 1730, 8vo, pp. 32 (no portrait). Queens' Coll. Library, Camb., marked 

 "P. 67, 4." 



Poems on Several Subjects . . . fifth edition. Lond., 1730, 8vo. Bodl. 

 G. Pamph., 801. 



Duck, Stephen. Poems on Several Subjects written by Stephen Duck lately 

 a poor Thrasher in a barn in the County of Wilts at the wages of four 

 shillings and sixpence a week : which were publiclj' read by The Eight 

 Hon. The Earl of Macclesfield, in the drawing-room at Windsor Castle 

 on Friday 11th of September 1730 To Her Majesty ; who was thereupon 

 most graciously pleased to take the author into her roj'al protection bj' 

 allowing him a salary of £30 per annum and a small house at Richmond 

 in Surrey to live in for the better support of himself and family. 



The Seventh Edition, corrected. To which is added Some Account of 

 the Author. 



London : Printed for -J. Roberts near the Oxford Arms in Warwick 

 Lane and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster mdccxxx. 

 (Price Sixpence, pp. 32 + (Life) pp. 4. (Advocates' Lib., Edinburgh.) 



The copy in Devizes Museum (Wilts Tracts, ix.) as the Rev. E. J. 

 Bodington kindly informs me, contains both portraits, viz., the full-length 

 one, with " Milton " and flail, and also the half-length, in nightcap, 

 writing. Bodl., G. Pamph., 213. Brit. Mus., 11633, bb. U. 



Poems on several subjects. Tenth edition. Lond., 1780, 16mo. Brit. 

 Mus., 11601, e. 1 (1). 



Royal Benevolence, a Poem, to which is annexed a Poem on Providence. 

 London and Dublin [1730]. Camb. Univ. Library, Hit. 8, 730, 2". An 

 edition, folio, London. Printed and Sold by W. Harros, 1730. 



[The Thresher's Miscellany, by Arthur' Duck, a Thresher, part 1. Lond. 



1739, 8vo. Brit. Mus., 11631, e. 16.] 

 The duck drowned in Parnassus ; or the goose triumphant ; containing Philip 



Goose the Berkshire thatcher's poem, presented to her majesty by lord 



Townshend. Lond., 1730, 4to. Bodl. Pamph., 389. 



Ditto, ditto. Ed. 3. 



The Tresher's miscellany; or poems on several subjects, written by Arthur 

 Duck, now a poor thresher in the county of Suffolk ; third edition. 

 Lond., 1731, 8vo. Bodl., G. Pamph., 213. 



' A pseudonym. (This parody on Stephen Duck's verse, has, as Dr. 

 Leslie Stephen points out, deceived some later writers.) 



