The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day. Containing a select collection of only the best and most approved English and Scotch songs, ballads, and tales; and of the most ingenious and diverting Epigrams, Epitaphs, Riddles, Bons Mots, and other short Pieces of Wit and Humour, by our most celebrated Poets, viz. Spenser, Shakespear, Johnson, Milton, Dryden, Cowley, Waller, Rochester, Roscommon, Buckingham, Congreve, Addison, Steele, Prior, Gay, Parnell, Philips, Swift, Pope, Che-f-d, L-y-n, And Others, whose Names are here prefixed to the several Pieces of which they are the Authors. ...

Date:

1752