The foundling hospital for wit : Intended For the reception and preservation of such brats of wit and humour, whose parents chuse to drop them. Containing all the satires, odes, ballads, epigrams, &c. that have been wrote since the change of the ministry, many of which have never before been printed. Number I. To be continued occasionally.
| Main Author: | Silence, Samuel |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for G. Lion near Ludgate,
1743.
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