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
Like the Dutch Skipper now may skit,
When in his sleeve he did do it,
She may skit free, but now plimp niet,
_Which no body_, &c.
Those female folk that there did haunt,
To make their filled bellies gaunt,
And with that same the brook did launt,
_Which no body_, &c.
Are driven now to do’t on grasse,
And make a sallet for their A...
The world is come to a sweet passe,
_Which no body_, &c.
Now farewell friend we held so deare,
Although thou help’st away with our cheare,
An open house-keeper all the yeare,
_Which no body_, &c.
The Phœnix in her perfumed flame,
Was so consum’d, and thou the same,
But the Aromaticks were to blame,
_Which no body_, &c.
That Phœnix is but one thing twice,
Thy Patron nobler then may rise,
For who can tell what he’l devise?
_Which no body_, &c.
_Diana’s_ Temple was not free,
Nor that world _Rome_, her Majesty
Smelt of the smoke, as well as thee,
_Which no body_, &c.
And learned Clerks whom we admire,
Do say the world shall so expire,
Then when you sh... remember fire.
_Which no body_, &c.
Beware of fire when you scumber,
Though to sh... fire were a wonder,
Yet lightning oft succeeds the thunder,
_Which no body_, &c.
We must submit to what fate sends,
’Tis wholsome counsel to our friends,
Take heed of smoking at both ends,
_Which no body can deny._
_Upon the Spanish Invasion in Eighty eight._
1.
In _Eighty eight_, ere I was born,
As I do well remember a,
In _August_ was a Fleet prepar’d
The month before _September_ a.
2.
_Lisbone_, _Cales_ and _Portugall_ [_Cales_, i.e. _Cadiz_.]
_Toledo_ and _Grenada_;
They all did meet, & made a Fleet,
And call’d it their _Armada_.
3.
There dwelt a little man in _Spain_
That shot well in a gun a;
_Don Pedro_ hight, as black a wight
As the Knight of the Sun a.
4.
King _Philip_ made him Admirall,
And charg’d him not to stay a,
But to destroy both man and boy,
And then to come his way a.
5.
He had thirty thousand of his own,
But to do us more harm a,
He charg’d him not to fight alone,
But to joyn with the Prince of _Parma_.
6.
They say they brought provision much
As Biskets, Beans and Bacon,
Besides, two ships were laden with whips,
But I think they were mistaken.
7.
When they had sailed all along,
And anchored before _Dover_,
The English men did board them then,
And heav’d the Rascalls over.
8.
The queen she was at _Tilbury_,
What could you more desire a?
For whose sweet sake Sir _Francis Drake_
Did set the ships on fire a.
9.
Then let them neither brag nor boast,
For if they come again a,
Let them take heed they do not speed
As they did they know when a.
_Upon the Gun-powder Plot._
1.
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