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James Woolley
Appendix: First Lines in the Acheson Manuscript.
Numbers refer to items in the “Description of the Acheson Manuscript,” above.
A Milesian by birth 29
A slave to crowds, scorched with the summer’s heats 4
A sore disease this scribbling itch is 14
After venting all my spite 7
As I strolled the city oft I 19
As Satan stepped into the house tother day 17
Asses milk half a pint, take at seven, or before 24
Banished Parnassus and the neighbouring plain 8
Blest leaf whose aromatic gales dispense 23
Clio behold this charming day 10
Critics avaunt! tobacco is my theme 21
De stirpe clarus 29
If real grief ere touched the tender heart 9
Lindsay mistakes the matter quite 4
May it please your grace with all submission 15
O thou matured by glad Hesperian suns 22
Pallas, the goddess chaste and wise 6
Pretty tube of mighty power 20
Skinnibonia, brown and bright 2
Stop, stop, my steed! hail Cambria, hail 12
Sure never did man see 1
The tenth of November the governor’s ball 25
Thus all the muses and each grace adorn 5
Thus spoke to my lady the knight full of care 3
We the court martial now begin to sicken 18
What clamour’s here about a dame 11
When the old dame in wickedness grown grey 26
Whilst William’s deeds and William’s praise 13
Who can behold Sir Arthur’s awful bust 28
You oft told us with glee 16