The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, Diversified with an uncommon Variety of Merry Tales; Pointed Satires; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and Facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals, taken from private Manuscripts. Jucundus Comes pro vehiculo est.

Date:

M.DCC.LIX. [1759]