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
Cures the _Spleen_[,] Revives the _blood_[,]
Puts thee in a _Merry_ Mood:
Who can deny such _Physick_ good?
Nothing like to Harmeles _Mirth_,
’Tis a Cordiall On earth
That gives _Society_ a Birth.
Then be wise, and buy, not borrow,
Keep an _Ounce_ still for to Morrow,
Better than a _pound_ of _Sorrow_.
N. D.
_Ballads, Songs, and Catches in this Book._
Original: Our
page. vols, page
1. The Exaltation of a _Pot of Good Ale_, 1 iii. 113
2. The Song of _Cook-Lawrel_, by Ben Johnson 9 ii. 214
3. The Ballad of _The Black-smith_, 11 225
4. The Ballad of _Old Courtier and the New_ 14 iii. 125
5. The Ballad of the Wedding of _Arthur of Bradley_, 16 ii. 312
6. The Ballad of the _Green Gown_, 20 i. Ap. 54
7. The Ballad of the _Gelding of the Devil_, 21 ii. 200
8. The Ballad of _Sir Eglamore_, 25 257
9. The Ballad of _St. George for England_, 26 iii. 129
10. The Ballad of _Blew Cap for me_, 29 133
11. The Ballad of the _Several Caps_, 31 135
12. The Ballad of the _Noses_, 33 ii. 143
13. The Song of the _Hot-headed Zealot_, 35 234
14. The Song of the _Schismatick Rotundos_, 37 iii. 139
15. A Glee in praise of _Wine_ [_Let souldiers_], 39 ii. 218
16. Sir John Sucklin’s Ballad of the _Ld. L. Wedding_. 40 101
17. The _Combat of Cocks_, 44 242
18. The _Welchman’s prayse of Wales_, 47 iii. 141
19. The _Cavaleer’s Complaint_ [and _Answer_], 49 ii. 52
20. Three several Songs in praise of _Sack_
[: _Old Poets Hipocrin_, &c. 52 iii. 143
_Hang the Presbyter’s Gill_, 53 144
_’Tis Wine that inspires_, 54 145
[A Glee to the Vicar, W.D. Int.
[On a Cold Chyne of Beef, 55 iii. 146
[A Song of _Cupid_ Scorned, 56 147
21. On the _Vertue of Sack_, by Dr. Hen. Edwards 57 ii. 293
22. The _Medly of Nations_, to several tunes, 59 127
23. The Ballad of the Brewer, 62 221
24. A Collection of 40 [34] more Merry
Catches and Songs. 65-76 iii. 149
[Of these 34, ten are given in Merry
Drollery, Complete, on pages 296, 304,
308, 232, 337, 300, 280, 318, 348, and 341.
The others are added in this volume iii. 52
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