Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.
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Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; English wit and humor; Songs, English -- Texts
A few typographical errors crept into sheet G (owing to an accident
in the Editor’s final collation with original). P. 81, line 2, read
_Blacke_; line 20, Shaft; p. 85, line 3, Unlesse; p. 86, line 5,
Physitian; line 17, that Lawyer’s; p. 87, line 9, That wil stick to
the Laws; p. 88, line 8, O that’s a companion; p. 90, first line,
_basenesse_; line 23, nature; p. 91, line 13, add a comma after the word
blot; p. 94, line 13, Scepter; p. 96, line 10, Of this; p. 97, line 15,
For feare; p. 99, line 6, add a comma; p. 100, line 13, finde. These are
all _single-letter_ misprints.
Page 269, line 14, for _encreasing_, read _encreaseth_; and end line 28
with a comma.
I. H. in line 35, are the initials of the author, “Iohn Higins.”
Page 270, line 9, add the words—“It is by Sir Wm. Davenant, and entitled
‘The Dying Lover.’”
Page 275, penultimate line, read _Poet-Beadle_. P. 277, l. 17, for 1698
read 1598.
Page 281, line 20, for _liveth_, read _lives_; _claime_.
Page 289, after line 35, add—“Page 45, ‘_As I went to_ Totnam.’ This is
given with the music, in Tom D’Urfey’s _Pills to purge Melancholy_, p.
180, of 1700 and 1719 (vol. iv.) editions; beginning ‘As I came from
_Tottingham_.’ The tune is named ‘Abroad as I was walking.’ Page 52, _He
that a Tinker_; Music by Dr. Jn. Wilson.”
Page 330, after line 10, add—“_Fly, boy, fly_: Music by Simon Ives, in
Playford’s _Select Ayres_, 1659, p. 90.”
The date of “The Zealous Puritan,” _M. D. C._, p. 95, was 1639. “He that
intends,” &c., _Ibid._, p. 342, is the _Vituperium Uxoris_, by John
Cleveland, written before 1658 (_Poems_, 1661, p. 169).
“Love should take no wrong,” in _Westminster-Drollery_, 1671, i. 90,
dates back seventy years, to 1601: with music by Robert Jones, in his
Second Book of Songs, Song 5.
Introduction to Merry Drollery (our second volume) p. xxii. lines 20,
21. Since writing the above, we have had the pleasure of reading the
excellent “Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland,” and the “Althorp
Memoirs,” by G. Steinman Steinman, Esq., F. S. A., (printed for Private
Circulation, 1871, 1869); by the former work, p. 22, we are led to
discredit Mrs. Jameson’s assertion that the night of May 29, 1660, was
spent by Charles II. in the house of Sir Samuel Morland at Vauxhall.
“This knight and friend of the King’s _may_ have had a residence in
the parish of Lambeth before the Restoration, but as he was an Under
Secretary of State at the time, it is more probable that he lived in
London; and _as he did not obtain from the Crown a lease of Vauxhall
mansion and grounds until April 19, 1675_, the foundations of a very
improbable story, whoever originated it, are considerably shaken.” Mr.
Steinman inclines to believe the real place of meeting was Whitehall. He
has given a list of Charles II.’s male companions in the Court at Bruges,
with short biographies, in the _Archæologia_, xxxv. pp. 335-349. We knew
not of this list when writing our Introduction to _Choyce Drollery_.
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