The Complete Works of
HENRY FIELDING, ESQ.

With an Essay on the Life, Genius and Achievement of the Author,

by

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY, LL.D.

PLAYS AND POEMS.

IN FIVE VOLUMES

VOL. FIVE

Illustrated with

Reproductions of Rare Contemporary Drawings
and Original Designs by

E. E. Carlson and E. J. Read

H

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN

1903

CYTILOKMY

CONTENTS

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PLAYS, VOL. V.

TUMBLE-DOWN DICK; or, PHAETON IN THE SUDS

MISS LUCY IN TOWN; A SEQUEL TO THE VIRGIN UNMASKED,

A Farce

PAGE

. 5

33

THE WEDDING-DAY, A Comedy

65

THE FATHERS; or, THE GOOD-NATURED MAN, A Comedy

149

PREFACE BY FIELDING TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF HIS MIS-

CELLANIES AND POEMS, IN 1743

235

POEMS:-

OF TRUE GREATNESS. An Epistle to the Right Honourable

George Dodington, Esq.

249

OF GOOD NATURE. To his Grace, the Duke of Richmond

258

LIBERTY. To George Lyttleton, Esq.

262

TO A FRIEND, ON THE CHOICE OF A WIFE

267

TO JOHN HAYES, ESQ. ON THE MIXED PASSIONS OF MAN

275

A DESCRIPTION OF UN (alias NEW HOG'S NORTON), IN

COM. HANTS. Written to a Young Lady in the Year 1728 277

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, 1730.

“WHILE AT THE HELM OF STATE YOU RIDE"

279

TO THE SAME. Anno 1731

PLAYS, VOL. V-1

281

WRITTEN EXTEMPORE ON A HALFPENNY, WHICH A YOUNG

PAGE

LADY GAVE A beggar, and THE AUTHOR REDEEMED FOR HALF-

ON A LADY, COQUETTING WITH A VERY SILLY FELLOW

284

285

EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO INVITED MANY GENTLEMEN TO A SMALL

TO THE SAME, ON HER WISHING TO HAVE A LILLIPUTIAN TO

TO THE SAME; HAVING BLAMED MR. GAY FOR HIS SEVERITY

ON THE SEX

AN EPIGRAM

ANOTHER

294

294

294

TO THE MASTER OF THE SALISBURY ASSEMBLY. Occasioned by

a Dispute whether the Company should have fresh Candles 295