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
_Room for a Gamester_ ii. 10 197 197
_Room for the best Poets heroick!_ 96 100 100
_Saw you not ~Pierce~ the piper_ ii. 124 312 312
_She lay all naked in her bed_ ii. 115 300 300
She lay up to the navel bare ii. 116 R^o
_She that will eat her breakfast_ ii. 120 308 308
_Shew a room, shew a room_ ii. 145 337 337
_Sir ~Eglamore~, that valiant knight_ ii. 75 257 257
_Some Christian people all give ear_ 81 87 87
_Some wives are good, and some_ 302 302
_Stay, shut the gate!_ ii. 18 207 207
_Sublimest discretions have club’d_ 287 287
_The Aphorisms of ~Galen~_ ii. 94 277 277
_The best of Poets write of F._ 141 153 153
_The Hunt is up, the Hunt is up_ 20 30 30
_The Proctors are two, and no more_ 105 111 111
_The Spring is coming on_ 40 47 47
_The thirsty Earth drinks up_ 22 22
_The ~Turk~ in linnen wraps_ 13 25 25
_The Wise Men were but seven_ 232 232
_The World’s a bubble, and the life_ 104 110 110
_There dwelt a Maid in the C. g._ 37 46 46
_There is a certain idle kind of cr._ 140 152 152
_There was a jovial Tinker_ 17 27 27
There was a Lady in this land 134 223
_There was an old man had an acre_ 44 52 52
There was three birds that built 139 R^a
_There was three Cooks in C_ ii. 129 318 318
_There’s a lusty liquor which_ 132 140 140
_There’s many a blinking verse_ ii. 35 221 221
_Three merry Boys came out_ 220 220
_Three merry Lads met at the Rose_ 143 143
_’Tis not the Silver nor Gold_ 109 115 115
_To friend and to foe_ 38 23 23
_Tobacco that is wither’d quite_ 16 26 26
_~Tom~ and ~Will~ were Shepherd_ 149 149
Upon a certain time 146 R^b
Upon a Summer’s day 148 230
_Wake all you Dead, what ho!_ 151 151
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