1685

1708

1709

1711

1712

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

Gay baptized at Barnstaple Old Church (Sep. 16).

Wine published (May).

Gay's elder brother, Jonathan, dies.
Present State of Wit published (May).

First acquaintance with Pope.

The Mohocks published (April 15).

The 'Epistle to Lintot' and 'The Story of
Arachne' appear in Lintot's Miscellany
(May).

Gay becomes secretary to the Duchess of
Monmouth.

1713 Rural Sports published (Jan. 13).

Paper in The Guardian (No. 11) on Reproof and Flattery (March 24).

✔ The Wife of Bath produced at Drury Lane theatre (May 12).

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Paper in The Guardian (No. 149) on
Dress (Sept. 1).

The Fan published (Dec. 8).

'Panthea,' Araminta,'A thought on

Eternity,' and 'A Contemplation on Night,' appear in Steele's Poetical Miscellany (Dec. 29).

1714

1715

The Shepherd's Week published (April 15).
Gay is made secretary to Lord Clarendon
(June 8), and accompanies him to
Hanover.

Queen Anne dies (Aug. 1).

Gay returns to England (Sept.).

The Princess of Wales lands at Margate
(Oct. 13).

A Letter to a Lady published (Nov. 20).
The What d'ye Call It produced at Drury
Lane theatre (Feb. 23).

The What d'ye Call It published (March
19).

Gay visits Devonshire in the summer.

A Journey to Exeter published.

1716 ✓ Trivia published (Jan. 26.)

1717

1718

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Court Poems (including The Toilet) pub-
lished (March 26).

Gay makes a second visit to Devonshire.
Three Hours after Marriage produced at
Drury Lane theatre (Jan. 16).

Three Hours after Marriage published (Jan.
21).
Garth's edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses
published.

Gay visits the Continent with Pulteney.
Letter to W L——, Esq., published in
the autumn.

Epistle to Pulteney published.

Gay visits Cockthorpe and Stanton Har

court, seats of Lord Harcourt in Oxfordshire.

1719 1720

1721

1722

1723

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Second visit to the Continent.

Publication of Gay's Poems on several Occa-
sions.

Investment and loss of G.'s fortune in South
Sea Stock.

Mr. Pope's Welcome from Greece written.
Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow
published (Feb. 8).

Visit to Bath.

Epistle to the Duchess of Marlborough published (July 11).

Gay is appointed Lottery Commissioner. Earl Lincoln grants him lodgings in Whitehall.

Gay spends the summer with the Burlingtons at Tunbridge Wells.

1724 The Captives produced at Drury Lane theatre (Jan. 15).

1726

Swift pays a long visit to Pope at Twickenham.

1727 The Fables (vol. i.) published.

1728

Issue of Pope and Swift's Miscellanies

(vols. i. and ii.).

Death of George 1. (June 12).

Gay refuses the post of Gentleman-usher to the Princess Louisa (October). The Beggar's Opera produced at the Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre (Jan. 29). The Beggar's Opera published (Feb. 14). ✓ Polly prohibited (Dec. 12).

1728-29 Gay has a severe attack of fever. 1729 He loses his lodgings in Whitehall.

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1730

1731

Unsuccessful revival of The Wife of Bath at the Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre (Jan. 19). Gay relinquishes the post of Lottery Commissioner.

1732 Acis and Galatea produced at the Haymarket theatre (May).

1733

Gay finishes a second volume of Fables.
Visits Sir William Wyndham at Orchard
Wyndham in Somerset.

Death of Gay (Dec. 4).

His funeral takes place in Westminster
Abbey (Dec. 23).

Achilles, produced at the Lincoln's Inn
Fields theatre (Feb. 10).

1738 ✓ The second volume of Fables published.
The Distrest Wife published.

1743

1754

1820

The Rehearsal at Goatham published.

Gay's Chair: Poems never before printed published.