es belonging to this club:

She o'er all Hearts and Toasts must reign,
Whose Eyes outsparkle bright Champaign;
Or (when she will vouchsafe to smile,)
The Brilliant that now writes _Carlisle_.[8]

Part I of _The Merry-Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-House
Miscellany_ was almost certainly published for the first time in 1731.
Arthur E. Case (_Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies_,
1521-1750) notes that this pamphlet was listed in the register of books
in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for October 1731.[9] An instant success
with the reading public, second and third editions of the pamphlet, the
third "with very Large Additions and Alterations," were also published
in 1731.[10] Because, as its title-page declared, the third and last
edition was the fullest of the three, a copy of that edition has been
chosen for reproduction here.[11]

[Footnote 8: _The Fifth Part of Miscellany Poems_, ed. Jacob Tonson
(London, 1716), p. 63.]

[Footnote 9: _A Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies,
1521-1750_ (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1935), p. 275.]

[Footnote 10: Case, p. 276, points out that the second edition was
advertised in the November 13, 1731, issue of _Fog's Weekly Journal_
and that the third edition was advertised in the December 11, 1731,
issue of the same journal. Three additional parts were also
published within a year or so, see Case, pp. 276-277.]

[Footnote 11: Although, as the title-page of the third edition
advertises, the third edition does contain materials not to be found
in the second edition, it does not indicate that the second edition
itself contained materials omitted from the third edition. Among the
materials not reprinted were the following verses:

_Red-Lyon_ at _Stains_.

My Dear _Nancy P---k---r_
I sigh for her, I wish for her,
I pray for her. Alas! it is a Plague
That _Cupid_ will impose, for my Neglect
Of his Almighty, Dreadful, Little Might.
Well, will I love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan
Ah! where shall I make my Moan!
_T. S._ 1709.

_John Crumb_, a Bailiff, as he was carrying to his Grave,
occasioned the following Piece to be written upon a Window in
_Fleet-Street_, _1706_.

Here passes the Body of _John Crumb_,
When living was a Baily-Bum
T'other Day he dy'd,
And the Devil he cry'd,
Come _Jack_, come, come.