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
_He that intends to take a wife_ ii. 153 342 342
_Heard you not lately of a man_ 169 180 180
_Here’s a health unto his Majesty_ 212 212
Hey, ho, have at all! 168 R^e
_Hold, quaff no more_ ii. 19 210 210
_How happy is the Prisoner_ 101 107 107
_How poor is his spirit_ ii. 48 232 232
_I am a bonny ~Scot~, Sir_ 119 127 127
_I am a Rogue, and a stout one_ ii. 16 204 204
_I came unto a Puritan to woo_ 73 77 77
_I doat, I doat, but am a sot_ ii. 53 237 237
I dreamt my Love lay in her bed 11 197
_I have reason to fly thee_ ii. 97 281 281
_I have the fairest Non-perel_ ii. 99 283 283
I loved a maid—she loved not me ii. 151 R^p
_I marvel, ~Dick~, that having been_ 46 54 54
I mean to speak of _England’s_ 85 218
_I met with the Divel in the shape_ 103 109 109
_I pray thee, Drunkard, get thee_ ii. 119 306 306
_I tell thee, ~Kit~, where I have been_ 317 317
I went from _England_ into _France_ 64 213
If any one do want a House ii. 64 R^m
_If any so wise is, that Sack_ ii. 157 348 348
_If every woman were served in her_ 80 85 85
_If none be offended with the scent_ ii. 77 259 259
If that you will hear of a ditty ii. 149 253
_If thou wilt know how to chuse_ 21 32 32
If you will give ear ii. 46 R^g
_I’ll go no more to the Old Exchange_ 126 134 134
_I’ll sing you a sonnet, that ne’er_ 66 66
_I’ll tell thee, ~Dick~, where I have_ 97 101 101
_I’ll tell you a story, that never w. t._ 123 131 131
_In Eighty-eight, e’er I was born_ 77 82 82
_In the merry month of ~May~_ 99 99
_It chanced not long ago, as I was_ ii. 82 264 264
It was a man, and a jolly old man 95 222
_Ladies, I do here present you_ ii. 55 240 240
_Lay by your pleading, Law_ 118 125 125
_Lay by your pleading, Love lies a_ ii. 4 191 191
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