![[?Gay (John)] An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722, 1723.](https://gcp-la8-storage-cdn.lot-art.com/public/upl/47/643265--86767--gay-john-an-epistle-to-the-most-learned-doctor-w-d-d-from-a-prude-that-was-unfortunately-metamor.jpg "[?Gay (John)] An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722, 1723.")
[?Gay (John)] An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722, 1723.
[?Gay (John)] "Prudentia". An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722, first edition, woodcut device to title, also head-piece, a little soiling and creasing, final f. browned verso, disbound, [Foxon, E416], by T.W., 1723.
?Perhaps by John Arbuthnot.
John Woodward (1665-1728) naturalist and antiquarian, several times satirised by Pope.
The epistle is a response to Arbuthnot's Annus Mirabilis, a satirical poetic prognostication predicting a general merging of the genders brought about by a conjunction of Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. The epistle recounts both Prudentia's sudden growth of a penis and her entreaties to Dr Woodward to remove it.
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[?Gay (John)] "Prudentia". An Epistle to the Most Learned Doctor W--d----d; From a Prude, That was unfortunately Metamorphos'd on Saturday December 29, 1722, first edition, woodcut device to title, also head-piece, a little soiling and creasing, final f. browned verso, disbound, [Foxon, E416], by T.W., 1723.
?Perhaps by John Arbuthnot.
John Woodward (1665-1728) naturalist and antiquarian, several times satirised by Pope.
The epistle is a response to Arbuthnot's Annus Mirabilis, a satirical poetic prognostication predicting a general merging of the genders brought about by a conjunction of Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. The epistle recounts both Prudentia's sudden growth of a penis and her entreaties to Dr Woodward to remove it.
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