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
Thus while she staid the young man plaid [p. 29.]
Not high, but low defending; [? descending;]
Each stroak he strook so well she took,
She swore it was past mending;
Let swaggering boys that think by toyes
Their Lovers to fetch over,
Lip-labour save, for the maids must have
A little o’ th’ t’on with t’other.
[p. 32.]
_A Song._
A Young man walking all alone
Abroad to take the air,
It was his chance to meet a maid
Of beauty passing fair:
Desiring her of curtesie
Down by him for to sit;
She answered him most modestly,
O nay, O nay not yet.
Forty Crowns I will give thee,
Sweet heart, in good red Gold,
If that thy favour I may win
With thee for to be bold:
She answered him with modesty,
And with a fervent wit,
Think’st thou I’ll stain my honesty?
O nay, O nay not yet.
Gold and silver is but dross, [p. 33.]
And worldly vanity;
There’s nothing I esteem so much
As my Virginity;
What do you think I am so loose, [_al. lect._, mad]
And of so little wit,
As for to lose my maidenhead?
O nay, O nay not yet.
Although our Sex be counted base,
And easie to be won,
You see that I can find a check
Dame Natures Games to shun;
Except it be in modesty,
That may become me fit,
Think’st I am weary of my honesty?
O nay, O nay not yet.
The young man stood in such a dump,
Not giving no more words,
He gave her that in quietness
Which love to maids affords:
The maid was ta’n as in a trance,
And such a sudden fit,
As she had almost quite forgot
Her nay, O nay not yet.
The way to win a womans love
Is only to be brief,
And give her that in quietness
Will ease her of her grief:
For kindness they will not refuse
When young men proffer it,
Although their common speeches be
O nay, O nay not yet.
[p. 56.]
_Admiral ~Deans~ Funeral._
1.
_Nick Culpepper_, and _William Lilly_,
Though you were pleas’d to say they were silly,
Yet something these prophesi’d true, I tell you, [? ye,]
Which no body can deny.
2.
In the month of _May_, I tell you truly,
Which neither was in _June_ nor _July_,
The Dutch began to be unruly,
Which no body can deny.
3.
Betwixt our _England_ and their _Holland_,
Which neither was in _France_ nor _Poland_,
But on the Sea, where there was no Land,
Which no body can deny.
4.
They joyn’d the Dutch, and the English Fleet,
[In] Our Authors opinion then they did meet,
Some saw’t that never more shall see’t,
Which no body can deny.
5.
There were many mens hearts as heavy as lead, [p. 57.]
Yet would not believe _Dick Dean_ to be dead,
Till they saw his Body take leave of his head,
Which no body can deny.
6.
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