An out-cry of poets; or, a catalogue of wits to be sold by inch of can.dle [sic], or otherways The sale begining next Tuesday in the Piazza in Covent Garden, about nine of the clock in the morning, and will last till seven at night. Ouldman, Thomas. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A53563 of text R216602 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing O596). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A53563 Wing O596 ESTC R216602 99828328 99828328 32755 2240897437

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A53563) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 32755) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1856:22) An out-cry of poets; or, a catalogue of wits to be sold by inch of can.dle [sic], or otherways The sale begining next Tuesday in the Piazza in Covent Garden, about nine of the clock in the morning, and will last till seven at night. Ouldman, Thomas. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for J. Harlow, London : 1691. Attributed to Thomas Ouldman by Wing. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. eng Poets, English -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. Satire, English -- 17th century. eebo An out-cry of poets; or, a catalogue of wits to be sold by inch of can.dle [sic], or otherways. The sale begining next Tuesday in the Piazza in Covent Ouldman, Thomas 1691 1 548 8 0 0 0 0 0 145.99 F The rate of 145.99 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN Out-Cry of POETS ; OR , A CATALOGUE of Wits to be Sold by Inch of Candle , or otherways . The Sale begining next Tuesday in the Piazza in Covent Garden , about Nine of the Clock in the Morning , and will last till seven at Night .

AN Excellent Stuttering Poet , fraught with Great Learning , Good Notions , Quick Conceptions , and N●at Comedy , being an exquisite little Fellow at a Melancholly Dirge , of a Merry Roundelay , and will be Swopt with any Bookseller for Waste Paper . Two Modern Parablists , highly Skill'd in the estimable Art of Puzzling , having an extraordinary Faculty of Metamorphising M a into Cuckoes , whales , Bears , Bulls , or Dragons , &c. and are great Abh●●rers of that Monstrous Prodigallity , Topknots : will be Sold for little or nothing . A Brawny Fat Poet , very nimble of Tongue , quick of Apprehension , High slown in Tragedy , and a most Dexterous Fellow at a Bartholomew-pair Droll ; but being under the Distemper of a C 〈…〉 s Apetitus , will be Sold so much the Cheaper . A Gentleman of a Weak Stomach , and of Danish Complexion , Profoundly Read in all Arts and Sciences , having a curious Method of Epitomizing ; being the Author of a● Hundred Bound Books , c●mmo●ly display'd , upon the Railes in Moor Fields , where they may be Read at any hour in the day , for your further Instruction of his Genius ●●sides , Nature having bestow'd her Secret Blessings very plentifully upon him , makes him Covet to be Sold to some Rich Widdow , who if ●●e please to Lay out her Mony upon such a Commodity , may be furnished upon a good Consideration . Two of the Athenian Respondents , having broke their Brains , in studying to Answer , which is the upper part of the Globe , are willing to be Sold to the Book-Sellers in Pye-Corner , to Regain the Lost Credit of the Antient and Renowned Art of Ballad Making . An Illaborate News-Monger , well Read in the Gazette , and in Feltham's Observation on the Low Countries , being now Servant in Ordinary to the Sham Master General , and Chief Leader of the Lying pamphleteers , is now ready to Resign his Commission , and will be Sold to any other Printer that has furthor Occasion . Mr. Multum in Parvo , A Gentleman of Low Stature , but of High Learning , whose Guts lying too near his Brains , by reason of his Deformity , are apt to throw up Excrementitious Vapours into the transparent Current of Conception , that his Good Thoughts can seldom 〈◊〉 seen for his Ill Managements but for this Fault we shall make Abatement ; He will be Sold by the Pound , that we may have a Price according to his ; Bulk .

If we find these go off well , our next Auction shall furnish you with more Variety .

FINIS .

LONDON : Printed for J. Harlow , 1691.