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
_Walking abroad in the m._ 76 81 81
_We Seamen are the honest boys_ 152 162 162
_What an Ass is he, Waits, &c._ ii. 90 273 273
_What Fortune had I, poor Maid_ ii. 152 341 341
_What is that you call a Maid._ ii. 68 249 249
_What though the ill times do run_ 116 124 124
What though the times produce 161 R^d
_When blind god ~Cupid~, all in an_ ii. 2 188 188
_When first ~Mardike~ was made_ 4 12 12
_When first the ~Scottish~war_ 89 93 93
_When I a Lady do intend to flatter_ ii. 158 348 348
_When I do travel in the night_ ii. 73 255 255
_When I’se came first to ~London~_ ii. 133 323 323
_When ~Phœbus~ had drest_ ii. 69 250 250
_When the chill ~Charokoe~ blows_ 155 164 164
_White bears have lately come_ 149 159 159
_Why should a man care_ ii. 146 337 337
_Why should we boast of_ Arthur ii. 122 309 309
_Why should we not laugh_ ii. 136 326 326
_Will you hear a strange thing_ 53 62 62
You Gods, that rule upon ii. 21 233
_You talk of ~New England~_ ii. 84 266 266
You that in love do mean to sport ii. 22 235
First Lines of the “Antidote” Songs:
GIVEN IN THIS VOLUME (AND NOT IN _M. D. C._).
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_A Man of ~Wales~, a little before ~Easter~_ 157
_An old house end_ 153
_Bring out the [c]old Chyne_ 146
_Come, come away to the Tavern, I say_ 150
_Come hither, thou merriest of all the Nine_ 133
_Come, let us cast dice who shall drink_ 151
_Drink, drink, all you that think_ 158
_Fly boy, fly boy, to the cellar’s bottom_ 157
_Good ~Symon~, how comes it_ 154
_Hang Sorrow, and cast away Care_ 152
_Hang the ~Presbyter’s~ Gill_ 144
_He that a Tinker, a tinker will be_ 52
_In love? away! you do me wrong_ 147
_I’s not come here to tauke of ~Prut~_ 141
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