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Subject: SOUTH SEA BUBBLE (FINANCIAL SCANDAL)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG ON THE SOUTH SEA, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ombre and basset laid aside, / new games employ the fair
Last Line: A place in female souls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): South Sea Bubble (financial Scandal)


LESSER EPISTLES: A PANEGYRICAL TO MR. THOMAS SNOW, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Disdain not, snow, my humble verse to hear
Last Line: "there, take my tally of ten thousand pound."
Subject(s): Capitalists & Financiers; South Sea Bubble (financial Scandal)


UPON THE SOUTH SEA PROJECT, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye wise philosophers! Explain
Last Line: South sea at best a mighty bubble
Subject(s): South Sea Bubble (financial Scandal)