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John Gay Biography

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.

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She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!

Away, Charmer, Charmers, Dear, Happiness

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Confused, Flee, Fleeing, Love, Thee

Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!

Peace, Silence, Sleep, Waves, Wind, Winds

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

Hath, Judged, Knave, Knaves, Made, Partners

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

Book, Hath, Learning, Oil, Whence

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

Crowns, Dead, Hearse, Nodding, Ostriches

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

Alcohol, Hate, Liquor, Love, Take

Envy is a kind of praise.

Envy, Kind, Praise

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.

Guard, Maids, Support, Sweating, Wet, Winter

Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

Joy, Joys, Love, Season, Youth

No author ever spar'd a brother.

Author, Brother

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

Cabinets, Gulliver, Nurse, Nursery, Read

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

Banquets, Dreadful, Men, Results, Smile

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

Like, Mind, Nothing, Unbends, Women

In love we are all fools alike.

Alike, Fool, Fools, Love

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

Flea, Humble, Men, Pride, Raise, Suppose

Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

Courage, Employ, Life, Wine, Women

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.

Came, Fall, Night, Sun, Takes, Wings

Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.

Feet, Joint, Rain, Seasons, Shoes, Wrench

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