...decking "Pretty Molly" for public admiration. Cowper, writing to the Rev. Wm. Unwin, Aug. 4, 1783, says, "What can be prettier than Gay's ballad, or rather...Arbuthnot's, Pope's, and Gay's in the What do ye call it — ' 'Twas when the seas were roaring ? ' I have been well informed that they all contributed, and...