Our politics are insincere, For Statesmen cog and shuffle; They hit not from the shoulder clear, But dodge, and spar with muffle. How Bench and Bar sink steeped in mire, Avails not here recording: While Prelates cannot now look higher Than to mere self-rewarding. 10. Friends of old days, ’tis well you died Before, like me, you sickened Amid the rottenness and pride That in this world have quickened: You passed, ere yet your hopes grew dim, While Love and Friendship warmed you: I look but to th’ horizon’s rim, For all that erst had charmed you. 11. Not here, amid a lower crew, I seek to fill your places; For men no more have hearts as true, Nor maids,—though fair their faces. My thoughts flit back to earlier days, Where Pleasure’s finger beckon’d, Cheered with the Beauty, Love, and Lays That warmed our Charles the Second. J. W. E. _Biblioth. Ashmol., Cantium_, 1876. [End of “The ‘Drolleries’ of the Restoration.”] Drollery Reprints. _Uniform with “Choice Drollery.”_ Published at 10s. 6d. to Subscribers, _now raised_ to 21s; large paper, published at £1 1s, _now raised_ to £2 2s. A RE-PRINT OF THE Westminster Drollery, 1671, 1672. To those who are already acquainted with the two parts of the _Westminster Drollery_, published in 1671 and 1672, it must have appeared strange that no attempt has hitherto been made to bring these delightful volumes within reach of the students of our early literature. The originals are of extreme rarity, a perfect copy seldom being attainable at any public sale, and then fetching a price that makes a book-hunter almost despair of its acquisition. So great a favourite was it in the Cavalier times, that most copies have been literally worn to pieces in the hands of its many admirers, as they chanted forth a merry stave from the pages. _There is no collection of songs surpassing it in the language_, and as representative of the lyrics of the first twelve years after the Restoration it is unequalled: by far the greater number are elsewhere unattainable. The WESTMINSTER DROLLERIES are reprinted with the utmost fidelity, page for page, and line for line, not a word being altered, or a single letter departing from the original spelling. DROLLERY RE-PRINTS. NOW READY. “_Merry Drollery, Complete_,” 1661, 1691.