...GAY AND THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY December I, 1731. To GAY IF your ramble was on horseback, I am glad of it on account of your health; but I know your arts of patching up a journey between stage-coaches and friends' coaches; for you are as arrant a cockney as any hosier in Cheapside, and...

...GAY AND THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY December i, 1731. To GAY IF your ramble was on horseback, I am glad of it on account of your health; but I know your arts of patching 1 By permission of Mr. John Murray. Supra, vol. iii, p. 148, ni up a journey between stage-coaches...

...unanimously against me. 190. O HAPPY DON QUIXOTE ! To John Gay. December i, If your ramble was on horseback, I am glad of it on account of your health; but I know your arts of patching up a journey between stage-coaches and friends' coaches; for you are as arrant a cockney as any hosier in Cheapside, and...

...and by that means force you to write." And again Swift wrote : " If your ramble was on horse back, I am glad of it on account of your health; but I know your arts of patching up a journey between stage-coaches and friends' coaches : for you are as arrant a cockney as any hosier in Cheapside, and...

...horses would carry you to Japan." "If your ramble," says Swift, in another letter, "was on horseback, I am glad of it, on account of your health; but I know your arts of packing up a journey between stage-coaches and friends' coaches — for you are as arrant a cockney...