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John Gay
(1685-1732)

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"O ruddier than the cherry,
O sweeter than the berry,
O Nymph more bright
Than moonshine night,
Like kidlings blithe and merry.
Ripe as the melting cluster,
No lily has such lustre,
Yet hard to tame,
As raging flame,
And fierce as storms that bluster."
John Gay (1685-1732), British poet. Acis and Galatea (l. 1-10). . . New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.

"Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbour, and yet we herd together."
John Gay (1685-1732), British dramatist. Lockit, in The Beggar's Opera, act 3, sc. 2.

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John Gay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Gay (30 June 1685 - 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gay

John Gay
John Gay was born at Barnstaple in Devon, the youngest son of William Gay. He lost his parents at an early age and was brought up by his uncle, the Reverend ...
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jgay.htm

The Beggar's Opera
John Gay produced, apart from The Beggar's Opera , a small body of prose and ...... The Music of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, Edited and Arranged from ...
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/beggar.html

HOASM: John Gay
john Gay. English poet and dramatist, who wrote the libretto to Handel’s Acis and Galatea. Best known as the creator .... Samuel Johnson's Life of John Gay ...
http://www.hoasm.org/VIIA/Gay.html

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