28 Dec 1742
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Newspaper
Dublin News Letter
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Dec 28, 1742
Page
1
The speaker praises a muse as the sole source of inspiration and joy for the poet’s craft and fame. He asks the muse to grant the same passion for wit as the legend seeks from his plume, recounting how vanity and temptation test a sovereign and urging protection for his own words. He reflects on vanity, appetite, and life’s end, pleading fidelity from his divine helper.
An old fable features Reynard the Fox outwitting a pack of hounds. He argues the worth of escape and deception, urging the hounds to capture nothing for it. The pack pursues, but Reynard escapes by leaping a wall and vanishing, leaving the chase at a standstill.
The speaker questions what a true bred huntsman should do if men rival hounds and Reynard style deceit outwits them. The implied answer is stark hang the whole crew, a harsh closing judgment on complicity and cheating within the hunt.
John Waler Etq, member of Parliament for the Borough of Doncrate, died last week at his country seat in County Limerick.
The page reports a string of notices from Montrathe street widows to the Work-house governors election and appointments, upcoming burlesque and theatrical performances at Smock Alley and Fishamble streets, a royal comedy at Aungier Street, and rope dancing at the Snook Alley theater. It also covers charity subscriptions, debt relief efforts, and a new books auctioning business by Richard Pue following William Heatly’s death.
Jatt Published by W. Smith in Dame-street G Faullener in Effx-street and O Nelson in Skinner-row price 10s 10d. GELEC U Trials at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey for Murder Robberies Rapes Sodomy Coining Frauds Bigamy and other Offences with genuine Accounts of Lives Behaviour Confessions and dying Speeches of eminent Convicts in four volumes from 1720 to this time
Notice announces equitable abatement for Monroe’s lands in Downe planned sale to best bidder. Also lists theatre notices and a linen manufacture alert detailing flaxseed handling, dyeing fraud prevention, and enforcement of Act requirements with inspectors to visit workshops and fairs.
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