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
_If at this time I am derided_ 9
_In ~Celia~ a question did arise_ 80
_In Eighty-eight, ere I was born_ 38
_Let not, sweet saint, let not these eyes offend you_ 92
_List, you Nobles, and attend_ 20
_My Mother hath sold away her Cock_ 43
_Never was humane soule so overgrown_ 17
_No Gypsie nor no Blackamore_ 88
_Nor Love, nor Fate dare I accuse_ 4
_Oh fire, fire, fire, where?_ 33
_On the twelfth day of December_ 78
_One night the great ~Apollo~, pleas’d with ~Ben~_ 5
_Shall I think, because some clouds_ 15
_She’s not the fairest of her name_ 99
_The Chandler grew neer his end_ 72
_There is not halfe so warme a fire_ 61
_This day inlarges every narrow mind_ 48
_’Tis late and cold, stir up the fire_ 100
_’Tis not how witty, nor how free_ 98
_Trust no more a wanton Wh—_ 90
_Uds bodykins, Chill work no more_ 57
_We read of Kings, and Gods that kindly took_ 83
_What ill luck had I, silly maid that I am_ 84
_When first the magick of thine eye_ 8
_When ~James~ in Scotland first began_ 70
AN
ANTIDOTE
AGAINST
MELANCHOLY:
Made up in PILLS.
Compounded of _Witty Ballads_, _Jovial
Songs_, and _Merry Catches_.
_These witty Poems though some time [they] may seem to halt on crutches,_
_Yet they’l all merrily please you for your Charge, which not much is._
Printed by _Mer. Melancholicus_, to be sold in _London_
and _Westminster_, 1661.
[Aprill, 18.]
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY, 1661.
_Adalmar._—“An Antidote!
Restore him whom thy poisons have laid low.” ...
_Isbrand._—“A very good and thirsty melody;
What say you to it, my Court Poet?”
_Wolfram._—“Good melody! When I am sick o’ mornings,
With a horn-spoon tinkling my porridge pot,
’Tis a brave ballad.”
(_T. L. Beddoes: Death’s Jest Book, Acts_ iv. & v.)
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