Authority Cited: Gay
Author name and dates: John Gay (1685-1732)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poems, Fables, ballads; lost to South Sea funds; playwright; Handel opera libretto; friend of Swift, Pope
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 230 Gay cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 260 Gay cites in 1755 Dict. Vol. 2; about 40% of the Gay cites are identified below. Five Gay cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
Author name and dates: John Gay (1685-1732)
BKG Bio-tweet: Poems, Fables, ballads; lost to South Sea funds; playwright; Handel opera libretto; friend of Swift, Pope
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 230 Gay cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 260 Gay cites in 1755 Dict. Vol. 2; about 40% of the Gay cites are identified below. Five Gay cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
- Poems on several occasions. By Mr. John Gay. [in two vol.]., London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head in the Strand, and Bernard Lintot, between the Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet, MDCCXX. [1720]. [BKG Note: Vol. 1 contains The Fan; The Shepherd's Week (Pastorals); Rural Sports; Trivia; and What D'ye Call It, so is a possible source of these poem quotations. The 1720 Poems on several occasions were the first collected edition.]
- Beggars Opera: The beggar's opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Gay. The second edition: to which is added the ouverture in score; and the musick prefix'd to each song. 1728, London: printed for John Watts, at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; approach (p.26, Air XX) [BKG Note: the edition SJ read (or heard) is unknown. The Dict. quote lacks one exclamation point]
- Epistles on Several Occasions*; Epistle I: To a Lady, Occasioned by the Arrival of her Royal Highness; imitate*; Epistle II. To the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington, A Journey to Exeter; mail*, passing* (The Epistles are in Vol. 2 of Poems on several Occasions)
- Fan; The Fan, a Poem in Three Books; clover-grass*, croslet, deals*, display*, distance, fade, fashion, frosted*, lock*, miniature*, pallete*, pluck*, powderbox*, quadrant*, rally*, ribbed*
- Fables; Fables. By Mr. Gay. London : Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727; puss (Fable L (50)), 1773 Dict. addition: perfume (Fable XLIX (49)) [BKG Note: inexact quotation, perhaps from memory. Gay: "When bord'ring pinks and roses bloom, And ev'ry garden breathes perfume"; Dict.: : "Pinks and roses bloom, and every bramble sheds perfume."
- Gay to Swift; possibly from Dean Swift's literary correspondence, for twenty-four years ; from 1714 to 1738. : Consisting of original letters to and from Mr. Pope, Dr. Swift, Mr. Gay, Lord Bolingbroke, Dr. Arbuthnot, Dr. Wotton, Bishop Atterbury, D. & Dfs. of Queensbury. 1741, London : Printed for E. Curll, at Pope's-Head, in Rose-Street, Covent-Garden (or from a later edition, or from an edition of Swift's works or Pope's works) cabinet-council, postoffice, unexpectedly* [Gay and Pope to Swift],
- Pastorals; The Shepherds Week, in Six Pastorals; afield*, ballad-singer*, barley mow, bedight*, bonfire*, bounce*, buns, carle, cheesepress, chirping, click, clover-grass*, cock, colewort*, corn, cricket, deathwatch*, deft, deftly, duckling, eftsoons, employ, erst*, fairing, fleet*, frizzle, gaffer, gillyflower, glee, goodman, goody, gooseberry, grenadier, guzzle*, gypsies*, hay, head*, hempen*, hose, hotcockles, inkle, ken, kersey*, kingcup*, latch, leach, leek*, lout, luncheon*, marigold, Midsummer, mugs*, neckcloath*, nappy, oatmeal*, paddling*, pippin*, potato*, punch*, puppy*, quaintly*, rareeshow*, rosin*, sage*, scant*, shear*, soar*, spinning wheel*, starch*, straw, stuff*, sty*, swarm*, tray*, turnip, wailing*, wait*, warble*, welladay*, workydays*; 1773 Dict. addition: next*
- Rural Sports & Preface; Rural Sports, a Georgic, inscribed to Mr. Pope; dint*, frighted*, point*, prick*, range*, rod*, shave*, wreath*, ranger, rod*
- Trivia; Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London; ballad, bandbox, beggar, braid, by-streets, care, centry*, chandler, croaking*, draggle, drink, drummer, ebon, elegaick, fireman*, flush, gaily, glimmering, gray, half-hatched, heapy*, heave, hurry, inrail*, kindler*, leaning*, lash, mirey, Mohock*, morel, mortgage*, muslin*, nitry*, palsied*, patten*, paver, powder*, pour*, prattle*, roar*, rowing*, sarcenet*, scour*, slabby*, slattern*, spirt*, steely*, steep*, string*, sully*, swinging*, tilt*, trainy*, turkey*, veal*, unmiry*, useless*, wander*, waterman*. wrinkle*, yest*
- What D’ye Call It & Preface; What D’ye Call It, a Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce; as, belfry, bid, bolster*, clear*, comical*, corporal*, damsel, elbowchair*, entertainment, firelock*, for*, glow*, plot, prime*, tight*
- Gay (no work cited); * = Gay cite; (many additional Dict. Gay quotes in addition to the above). [BKG Note: compound quote should be Swift, "A Panegyrical Epistle"]; apozem; gayly; hearted; motion; perfume.