Garrick, David, 84 Garth, Dr., 16 Gay, Anthony, 1 Gilbert le, 1 Rev. James (uncle of the poet), 2 Joanna (sister of the poet), 2, 117 Jonathan (brother of the poet), 2, 7 Johans, 1 John (grandfather of the poet), 1 John (uncle of the poet), 2 John (the poet), ancestors, 1; parentage and family, 1-2; birth, 2; death of parents, 2; lives with his uncle, Thomas Gay, 2; attends Free School at Barr staple, 2-3; apprenticed to a London silk-mercer, 3; in ill-health, 4; returns to Barnstaple, 4; early writings, 4-5; youthful love affair, 5-6; in improved health, 7; returns to London, 7; life in the Metropolis, 7-8; love of food, drink, and dress, 8-9; "Wine," 9-10; "The Present State of Wit," 11-14; makes acquaintance with Henry Cromwell and Pope, 14; "On a Miscellany of Poems to Bernard Lintott," 14-16; becomes intimate with Pope, 17; domestic secretary to the Duchess of Monmouth, 18-19; "Rural Sports," 20; some minor verses, 20; "The Fan," 20-21; "The Wife of Bath," 21, 113, 115-116; his charm, 21-22; Pope as his protector and adviser, 22; "Memoirs of Scriblerus," 23; "The Shepherd's Week," 24-28; appointed Secretary to Lord Clarendon's Mission to Hanover, 1714, 29; letters from Hanover, 29; returns to England on death of Queen Anne, 33; "A Letter to a Lady," 34-35; "The What D'ye Call It," 35, 36-39; recognised as a man of letters, 39; visit to Exeter with the Earl of Burlington, 39; "Trivia," 39-40; "Court Poems," 40; "The Toilet," 41; second visit to Devonshire, 41; "Three Hours After Marriage," 41-45; visits the Continent with Pulteney, 45-46; intimate with the Maids of Honour, 46; and with the Hon. Mrs. Howard, 46-47; again abroad with Pulteney, 48; his literary reputation in 1720, 50; "Poems on Several Occasions," 50; given a present of South Sea stock, and invests his fortune in it, 52; loses his money when the "Bubble" bursts, 53; financial embarrassment, 53; the desire of his friends to aid him, 54; the disappointment affects his health, 55; recuperates at Bath, 55; appointed a Commissioner of the State Lottery and given an apartment in Whitehall, 57; at Tunbridge Wells, 58; correspondence with the Hon. Mrs. Howard, 59-64; "The Captives," 65; dedication to the Princess of Wales, 65; again at Bath, 66, 67; first meeting with Swift, 68; becomes more intimate with the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry, 69; "The Fables" (first series), 69; dedication to Prince William Augustus, 69; his expectation of a post at Court, 70; offered appointment of Gentleman Usher to the Princess Louisa, 70; his indignation, 70; refuses the post, 70; the opinions of Pope and Swift on the offer, 71-74; lampooned, 75-77; "The Beggar's Opera," 78-91, 93; at Bath, 92-94; "Polly," 95-101, 108; loses his Commissionship and his apartments in Whitehall, 101; an end of hope of Court preferment, 102;