By the early 18th century, the pastoral genre was ripe for renewal and an element of parody began to be introduced. John Gay ridiculed the eclogues of Ambrose Philips in the six 'pastorals' of "The Shepherd's Week". The impulse to renewal and parody also met in the various "town eclogues" published at this time, transferring their focus from the fields to city preoccupations. The first was a joint publication by Jonathan Swift and his friends in "The Tatler" for 1710; John Gay wrote three more, as well as "The Espousal", "a sober eclogue between two of the people called Quakers"; and Mary Wortley Montagu began writing a further six "Town Eclogues" from 1715.