John Gay

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John Gay (30 June 1685 - 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names. Gay was born in Barnstaple, England and was educated at the town's grammar school. On leaving school he was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to Samuel Johnson <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Gay">Rea

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Quotes

• “'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.”
• “So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,— The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.”
• “My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.”
• “No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who’ve no retreat.”
• “Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.”
• “All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.”

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