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JOHN GAY

John Gay was an English dramatist and poet. He was born in 1685 at Barnstaple and died in 1732. He published his first poem, 'Wine' in 1708. Apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, in 1712 he became secretary to Anne, Duchess of Monmouth. In 1713 he published his Rural Sports, which he dedicated to Pope, with whom he formed a close friendship. In 1714 his caricature of Ambrose Philips' pastoral poetry was published, under the title of the Shepherd's Week, and dedicated to Lord Bolingbroke, by whose interest he was appointed secretary to the Earl of Clarendon, in his embassy to the court of Hanover. His mock-heroic poem, Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London, appeared in 1715, and in that year also was acted his burlesque drama of What d'ye Call It? but his next piece, the farce Three Hours after Marriage, altogether failed. In 1720 he published his poems by subscription, in 1724 his tragedy, The Captives, and in 1727 his well-known Fables. His Beggar's Opera, the notion of which seems to have been afforded by Swift, was first acted in 1728, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where it ran for sixty-three nights, but the lord-chamberlain refused to license for performance a second part entitled Polly. He also wrote the pastoral Acis and Galatea and the opera Achilles. The closing years of his life were mostly spent in the house of the Duke of Queensberry.
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ACIS

In Greek mythology, Acis was a beautiful shepherd of Sicily. He was the son of Faunus and a river nymph. He loved the sea-nymph Galatea and was killed by his jealous rival Polyphemus, who crushed him under a huge rock. According to Sicillian tradition he was then turned into the river of the same name which runs at the foot of Mount Etna, or else his escaping blood turned into the river which now bears his name.
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GALATEA

In Greek mythology, Galatea was the daughter of Nereus and Doris. She rejected the advances of the Cyclops Polyphemus and instead gave herself to the Sicilian shepherd Acis. Polyphemus crushed Acis beneath a rock.
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ACIS

ACIS is an abbreviation for Advanced Cabin Interphone System
ACIS is an abbreviation for Alan Charles Ian Spatial
ACIS is an abbreviation for Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
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