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
The Cuckold her husband caper’d
When his head in the sack was in,
But grant that we may never fall
When we dance in the sack of sin.
_With a dildo, &c._
And as they ever danc’t
In faire or rainy weather,
I wish they may be hang’d i’ th’ rope of Love,
And so be cut down together.
_With a dildo, &c._
_Upon a House of Office over a River, set on fire by a coale of TOBACCO._
Oh fire, fire, fire, where?
The usefull house o’re Water cleare,
The most convenient in a shire,
_Which no body can deny,_
The house of Office that old true blue
Sir-reverence so many knew[,]
You now may see turn’d fine new. [? fire]
_Which no body, &c._
And to our great astonishment
Though burnt, yet stands to represent
Both mourner and the monument,
_Which no body, &c._
_Ben Johnson’s_ Vulcan would doe well,
Or the merry Blades who knacks did tell,
At firing _London Bridge_ befell.
_Which no body, &c._
They’l say if I of thee should chant,
The matter smells, now out upon’t;
But they shall have a fit of fie on’t.
_Which no body_, &c.
And why not say a word or two
Of she that’s just? witness all who
Have ever been at thy Ho go,[6]
_Which no body_, &c.
Earth, Aire, and Water, she could not
Affront, till chollerick fire got
Predominant, then thou grew’st hot,
_Which no body_, &c.
The present cause of all our wo,
But from Tobacco ashes, oh!
’Twas s...n luck to perish so,
_Which no body_, &c.
’Tis fatall to be built on lakes,
As Sodom’s fall example makes;
But pity to the innocent jakes,
_Which no body_, &c.
Whose genius if I hit aright,
May be conceiv’d Hermophrodite,
To both sex common when they sh...
_Which no body_, &c.
Of severall uses it hath store,
As Midwifes some do it implore,
But the issue comes at Postern door:
_Which no body_, &c.
Retired mortalls out of feare,
Privily, even to a haire,
Did often do their business there,
_Which no body_, &c.
For mens and womens secrets fit
No tale-teller, though privy to it,
And yet they went to’t without feare or wit,
_Which no body_, &c.
A Privy Chamber or prison’d roome,
And all that ever therein come
Uncover must, or bide the doome,
_Which no body_, &c.
A Cabinet for richest geare
The choicest of the Ladys ware,
And pretious stones full many there.
_Which no body_, &c.
And where in State sits noble duck,
Many esteem that use of nock,
The highest pleasure next to oc-
_Which no body_, &c.
And yet the hose there down did goe,
The yielding smock came up also,
But still no Bawdy house I trow,
_Which no body_, &c.
There nicest maid with naked r...,
When straining hard had made her mump,
Did sit at ease and heare it p...,
_Which no body_, &c.
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