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MOurn! --- Mourn! you Booksellers, --- For cruel Death / Has rob'd the Famous Auctioner of Breath: Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 354 1: 354 AN / ELEGY / UPON THE / Lamented Death / OF / Edward Millington, / The Famous Auctioner. AN ELEGY UPON THE Lamented Death OF Edward Millington, The Famous Auctioneer. Brown, Thomas 1703-1703 John Nutt

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MOurn! --- Mourn! you Booksellers, --- for cruel Death Has rob'd the Famous Auctioner of Breath: He's gone, --- he's gone, --- ah! the great Loss deplore; Great Millington, --- alas! --- he is no more: No more will he now at your Service stand Behind the Desk, with Mallet in his Hand: No more the Value of your Books set forth, And sell 'em by his Art for twice the Worth. Methinks I see him still, with smiling Look, Amidst the Crowd, and in his Hand a Book: Then in a fine factious pleasing way, The Author's Genius, and his Wit display. O all you scribling Tribe, come mourn his Death, Whose Wit hath giv'n your dying Fame new Birth: When your neglected Works did mouldring lie Upon the Shelves, and none your Books would buy; How oft' has he, with strained Eloquence, Affirm'd the Leaves contain'd a World of Sense, When all's insipid, dull Impertinence? Come, Gentlemen, --- come bid me what you please; Upon my Word, it is a curious Piece, Done by a Learned Hand, --- and neatly bound: What say you? --- come, --- I'le put it up, --- One Pound; One Pound, --- once, twice; fifteen: Who bids; --- a Crown: Then shakes his Head, with an affected Frown, And says, for Shame, consider, Gentlemen, The Book is sold in Shops for more than ten. Good lack a day! --- 'tis strange, then strikes the Blow, And in a feigned Passion bids it go. Then in his Hand another Piece he takes, And in its Praise a long Harrangue he makes; And tells 'em that tis writ in lofty Verse, One that is out of Print, and very scarse: Then
Then with high Language, and a stately Look, He sets a lofty Price upon the Book; Five Pound, Four Pound, Three Pound, he cries aloud, And holds it up t'expose it to the Crowd, With Arm erect, --- the Bidders to provoke To raise the Price before th' impending Stroke: This in the Throng does Emulation breed, And makes 'em strive each other to out-bid; While he discants upon their Learned Heats, And his Factious Dialect repeats: For none like him, for certain, knew so well, (By way of Auction) any Goods to sell. 'Tis endless to express the wayes he had To sell their good, and to put off their bad. But, ah! in vain I strive his Fame to spread; The Great, the Wise, the Knowing Man is dead. Mourn! --- Mourn! --- ye Booksellers, for Cruel Death Has rob'd the Famous Auctioner of Breath. And you in Painting skill'd his Loss bewail; He's dead! --- that did expose your Works to Sale: See how he lies, all dismal, wan, and pale. No more by him your Praise will be exprest, For, ah! he's gone to his Eternal Rest. Can you forget how he for you did baw'l, Come put it in? ------ A Fine Original, Done by a Curious Hand: ------ What strokes are here, Drawn to the Life? --- How fine it does appear: O Lovely Peice! --- Ten Pound, --- Five Pound; --- for shame, You do not bid the Value of the Frame. How many prety Stories would he tell, To inhance the Price, and make the Picture sell: But now he's gone! --- ah! --- the sad Loss deplore; Great Millington! --- alass! he is no more. And you, the Muses Darlings too, reherse Your Sorrows for the Loss of him in Verse: Mourn! --- Mourn! together, for that Tyrant Death Has rob'd the Famous Auctioner of Breath. FINIS. His EPITAPH. UNderneath this Marble Stone Lies the Famous Millington; A Man who through the World did steer I' th' Station of an Auctioner: A Man with Wondrous Sense and Wisdom blest, Whose Qualities are not to be exprest.
Published by John Nutt near Stationers-Hall. 1703.