Miscellanies in prose and verse [electronic resource] : consisting of dramatick pieces, poems, humorous tales, fables, &c. Under the following heads: I. The rival priests; or, The female politition: a farce. II. The perjur'd devotee, or Force of love: a comedy. III. Muscipula; sive, cambro-muo-ma chia: with a translation of it in Miltonick verse. IV. Back-gammon: or, The battle of the friars: a tale. V. The fair counsellor; or, The young lady's conduct after marriage: a matrimonial conference. VI. An essay on the nature of fable; with select tales and fables, and other mythological amusements; concluding with a short pastoral interlude, entitled, The absent nymph, or The doating swain. ... By D. Bellamy, some time since of St. John's College, Oxford, and D Bellamy, jun of Trinity-College, in Cambridge.