John Gay

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.

Read more about John Gay:  Early Life, Early Career, Patrons, The Beggar's Opera, Later Career, Partial List of Works

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    “For hym was levere have at his beddes heed,
    Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
    Of Aristotle and his philosophie,
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    But al be that he was a philosophre,
    Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)