APPENDIX. PART 3. § 1.—EXTRA SONGS IN THE WESTMINSTER-DROLLERY, 1674. “A living Drollery!” (Shakespeare’s _Tempest_, Act iii. sc. 3.) Before concluding our present series, _The Drolleries of the Restoration_, we have gladly given in this volume the fourteen pages of Extra Songs contained in the 1674 edition of _Westminster-Drollery_, Part 1st. Sometimes reported as amounting to “nearly forty” (but, perhaps, this statement referred to the Second Part inclusive), it is satisfactory to have joined these six to their predecessors; especially insomuch that our readers do not, like the original purchasers, have to pay such a heavy price as losing an equal number of pages filled with far superior songs. For, the 1671 Part First contained exactly 124 pages, and the 1674 edition has precisely the same number, neither more nor less. The omissions are not immediately consecutive, (as are the additions, which are gathered in one group in the final sheet, pp. 111-124.) They were selected, with unwise discrimination, throughout the volume. Not fourteen pages of objectionable and relinquishable _facetiæ_; but ten songs, from among the choicest of the poems. Our own readers are in better case, therefore: they gain the additions, without yielding any treasures of verse in exchange. We add a list of what are thus relinquished from the 1674 edition, noting the pages of our _Westm. D._ on which they are to be found:— P. 5. Wm. Wycherley’s, _A Wife I do hate_ 1671 — 10. Dryden’s, _Phillis ~Unkind~: Wherever I am_ do. — 15. Unknown, _O you powerful gods_, ? do. — 28. T. Shadwell’s, _Thus all our life long_, 1669 — 30. Dryden’s, Cellamina, _of my heart_, 1671 — 31. Ditto, _Beneath a myrtle shade_, do. — 116. Ditto, Ditto (almost duplicate), do. — 47. Ditto, _Make ready, fair Lady_, 1668 — —. Etherege’s, _To little or no purpose_, do. — 91. T. Carew’s, _O my dearest, I shall_, &c., bef. 1638 — 100. Ditto, or Cary’s, _Farewell, fair Saint_, bef. 1652 Thus we see that most of these were quite new when the _Westminster-Drollery_ first printed them (in four cases, at least, before the plays had appeared as books): they were rejected three years later for fresh novelties. But the removal of Carew’s tender poems was a worse offence against taste.