Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets: Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.
History
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
_How shall I sing, how shall I look,_
_In honour of the Master-Cook?_
With brewis Ile noynt thee from head to th’ heel,
Shal make thee run nimbler then the new oyld wheel[;]
With Pye-crust wee’l make thee
The eighth wise man to be;
But O! the cold Chyne, the cold Chyne for me:
CHORUS.
_How shall I sing, how shall I look,_
_In honour of the Master-Cook?_
[p. 56.]
_A Song of Cupid Scorn’d._
In love[?] away, you do me wrong,
I hope I ha’ not liv’d so long
Free from the Treachery of your eyes,
Now to be caught and made a prize,
No, Lady, ’tis not all your art,
Can make me and my freedome part.
CHORUS.
_Come, fill’s a cup of sherry, and let us be merry,_
_There shall nought but pure wine_
_Make us love-sick or pine,_
_Wee’l hug the cup and kisse it, we’l sigh when ere we misse it;_
_For tis that, that makes us jolly,_
_And sing hy trololey lolly._
In love, ’tis true, with _Spanish_ wine,
Or the _French_ juice _Incarnadine_;
But truly not with your sweet Face,
This dimple, or that hidden grace,
Ther’s far more sweetnesse in pure Wine,
Then in those Lips or Eyes of thine.
CHORUS (_Come, fill’s a cup of sherry, &c._
Your god[,] you say, can shoot so right,
Hee’l wound a heart ith darkest night:
Pray let him throw away a dart,
And try if he can hit my heart.
No _Cupid_, if I shall be thine,
Turn _Ganimed_ and fill us Wine.
CHORUS (_Come, fill’s a cup of sherry, &c._
[The three next are common to the _Antidote_ and _Merry Drollery,
Compleat_, with a few verbal differences: On the Vertue of Sack, by Dr.
Henry Edwards; The Medley of the Nations; and The Brewer, A Ballad made
in the Year 1657, To the Tune of _The Blacksmith_. For them, see _M. D.,
C._, pp. 293, 127, 221. These three poems are followed by “A Collection
of Merry Catches,” thirty-four in number, of which only ten are found
in _Merry Drollery, Compleat_, (viz., 3. “Now that the Spring;” 5.
“Call _George_ again;” 9. “She that will eat;” 13. “The Wise-men were
but Seven;” 14. “Shew a room!” 15. “O! the wily wily Fox;” 17. “Now I
am married;” 19. “There was three Cooks in Colebrook;” 22. “If any so
wise is;” and 29. “What fortune had I,”) on pp. 296, 304, 308, 232, 337,
300, 280, 318, 348, and 341, respectively. See notes on them, also, in
Appendix to _M. D., C._ One other, first in the _Antidote_, had appeared
earlier in _Choice Drollery_, p. 52: “He that a Tinker,” &c., _q.v._]
[p. 65.]
A CATCH.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account