By Rev. Chr. Wordsworth. 321 



Two other jeux d'esjprit on S. Duck are cited by H. H. in Notes and Queries, 

 4th S., iv., 347, beginning: — 



"Oh Duck! preferred by bounteous Queen." 



(Five lines.) 

 "Old Homer, tho' a bard divine." 



(Twelve lines.) 



An Epistle from a Footman in London to the celebrated Stephen Duck. 

 London, 1731, folio. Bodl., G. Pamph., 1669 (24). 



1731. Duck, Stephen: — "A full and authentic account of Stephen Duck, 

 the Wiltshire poet. Of his education, his methods of improving himself, 

 how he first engaged in Poetry ; and his great care in writing. Of each 

 of his particular Poems ; of the first encouragements he met with, and 

 his original Sentiments on several books, things, &c. In a Letter to a 

 Member of Parliament. By J[oseph] S[pence], Esq., Poetry Professor 

 for the University of Oxford. London Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick 

 Lane ; and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster ; 

 and the Booksellers of Oxford. 1731. Price Sixpence. Cr. 8vo., pp. 

 27, including Title and "The Publisher to the Reader," 2 pp. Bodl., 

 Crynes, 824 ; G. Pamph., 62. 



(See N. 4- Q., 4th S., iv., 423, communicated by Mr. W. Bates. 

 Nichols, Lit. Anecd. of the 18th Cent., ii., 373-4, «., refers to this 

 " Grub-Street title," as drawn up by Spence himself to disguise his own 

 hand in publishing it.) 



Stephen Duck. To the Duke of Cumberland on his Birthday, April 15th, 

 1730. Lond., 1732, folio. Brit. Mus., 11632, i. 4. 



Poems on Several Subjects . . . read by The Right Honourable Thomas 

 Earl of Macclesfield . . . into her Royal Protection by ordering him 

 an Apartment at Kew, near Richmond in Surrey, to live in ; and a 

 salary of Thirty Pounds per Annum for his better Support and Main- 

 tenance. 



The Ninth' Edition. To which are added, Several Poems by the 

 same Author, not in any former Editions. Also a Copy of Verses from 

 a Miller in Ireland to Stephen Duck. London : Printed for J. Roberts, 

 near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane ; and sold by T. Astley, at the 

 Rose, over-against the North Door of St. Paul's Church. 1733. [Price 

 Six Pence.] Bvo, pp. 31 -f 1 page of advertisement. Full-length 

 portrait with book and flail. Oxford, Bodl., G. Pamph., 1287, 9 ; Camb. 

 Univ. Lib., LE. 8, 140; Camb., Queens' Coll., " P. 2, 31." 



Stephen Duck : Verses addressed to Dr. Rob. Freind on his quitting [his 

 headmastership of] Westminster School. 1733. Printed in Gent. Mag., 

 iii., 152. See J. Nichols' Lit. Anecd. of the 18th Cent., v. 87. 



' N.B.— This " 9th Edition," 1733, is dated later than the " 10th Edition" 

 of 1730. 



