Gay the Poet. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Gay the Poet


Well, then, poor G[ay] lies under ground! So there’s an end of honest Jack; So little justice here he found, ’Tis ten to one he’ll ne’er come back. Pope.—Epitaph on Gay.	1
Bless’d be the great! for those they take away, And those they left me; for they left me G A Y: Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb. Pope.—To Arbuthnot, Prol. to Sat., Line 255.	2
Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit, a man; simplicity, a child. Pope.—Epitaph on Gay.	3
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Dryden.—Epitaph on Killigrew, No. 11. Stanza 4.	4