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John Gay (1685-1732)
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1      An Elegy on a Lap-dog
2      Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends
3      Sweet William's Farewell to Black-ey'd Susan: A Ballad
4      The Beggar's Opera (excerpts)
5      The Shepherd's Week (excerpt)
6      Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (excer
        
 

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  John Gay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apr 7, 2009 ... For other persons named John Gay, see John Gay (disambiguation). John Gay .... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: John Gay ...
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  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 ...
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  The Beggar's Opera
These are the Robbers of Mankind, for Money was made for the Free- hearted and Generous.
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  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 ...
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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 su...
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) Ox...
 
  ''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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