Gay's protestations of delight at the accession to the throne of the House of Hanover would probably have been regarded as more sincere if, unfortunately, he had not a few months before dedicated "The Shepherd's Week" to Bolingbroke. His very outspoken hint in the "Letter to a Lady" was ignored; but Caroline, who liked eulogy as much as anyone, received him kindly; and when in February, 1715, he produced "The What D'ye Call It" at Drury Lane Theatre, she and her consort attended the first performance. But still, no place was found for him at Court. "Tell me," Swift asked him so much later as 1723, "are you not under original sin by the dedication of your Eclogue to Lord Bolingbroke?" [Footnote 1: _The Guardian_, No. 32; April 17th, 1713.] [Footnote 2: Dr. Johnson in his "Lives of the Poets" attributes the authorship to Steele (_Works_, ed. Hill), III, p. 269.] [Footnote 3: Introductory Memoir by John Underhill, in his edition of the _Poems of John Gay_ ("The Muses' Library"), I, xxxi.] [Footnote 4: _Works_ (ed. Hill), III, p. 269.] [Footnote 5: _Specimens_, I, p. 298.] [Footnote 6: _Dictionary of National Biography_, article, Gay.] [Footnote 7: Swift: _Works_ (ed. Scott), XVI, p. 113.] [Footnote 8: _Ibid_., XVI, p. 117.] [Footnote 9: _Ibid_., XVI, p. 123.] [Footnote 10: Swift: _Works_ (ed. Scott), XVI, p. 193.] [Footnote 11: Swift: _Works_ (ed. Scott), XVI, p. 204.] [Footnote 12: Pope: _Works_ (ed. Elwin and Courthope), VII, p. 415.] [Footnote 13: Swift: _Works_ (ed. Scott), XVI, p. 213.] CHAPTER V 1715-1719 "The What D'ye Call It"--An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Earl of Burlington--"Trivia, or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London"--"Three Hours After Marriage."