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OR, THE

ART of Walking

The STREETS of

LO

NDO N.

By Mr. GAY.

Quo te Mari pedes? An, quo via ducit, in Urbem?

The THIRD EDITION.

Virg.

LONDON:
Printed for BERNARD LINTOT, at the Cross-Keys,
between the Temple-Gates, in Fleetstreet.

M. DCC. XXX.

(Price One Shilling.)

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ADVERTISEMENT.

TH

HE world, I believe, will take fo little notice of me, that I need not take much of it. The criticks may fee by this poem, that I walk on foot, which probably may save me from their envy. I should be forry to raise that passion in men whom I am so much obliged to, fince' they allowed me an honour hitherto only fhewn to better writers: That of denying me to be the author of my own works.

Gentlemen, if there be any thing in this poem good enough to difpleafe you, and if it be any advantage to you to afcribe it to fome perfon of greater merit; I shall acquaint you, for your comfort, that among many other obligations, I owe feveral hints of it to Dr. Swift. And if you will So far continue your favour as to write against it, I beg you to oblige me in accepting the following

motto.

-Non tu, in Triviis, indocte, folebas

Stridenti, miferum, ftipulâ, difperdere carmen?

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TRIVIA

BOOK I.

Of the Implements for walking the Streets, and Signs of the Weather.

Hrough winter ftreets to fteer your course

T

aright,

How to walk clean by day, and fafe by

night,

How joftling crouds with prudence to decline,
When to affert the wall, and when refign,
Ifing: Thou, Trivia, Goddess, aid my song,
Thro' spacious ftrects conduct thy bard along;

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