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
From the cry of _Ludgate_ debters, [p. 39.]
And the noise of Prisoners Fetters,
From groans of them that have the Pox,
And coyl of Beggars in the Stocks,
From roar o’ th’ _Bridge_, and _Bedlam_ prate,
And with Wives met at _Billingsgate_,
From scritch-owles, and dogs night-howling,
From Sailers cry at their main bowling,
_Libera nos Domine_.
From _Frank Wilsons_ trick of _mopping_,
And her ulcered h... with _popping_,
From Knights o’ th’ post, and from decoys,
From _Whores_, _Bawds_, and roaring _Boys_,
From a _Bulker_ in the dark,
And _Hannah_ with St. _Tantlins_ Clark,
From Biskets Bawds have rubb’d their gums,
And from purging-Comfit plums,
_Libera nos Domine_.
From _Sue Prats_ Son, the fair and witty,
The Lord of _Portsmouth_, sweet and pretty,
From her that creeps up _Holbourne_ hill,
And _Moll_ that cries, _God-dam-me_ still,
From backwards-ringing of the Bells,
From both the Counters and Bridewells,
From blind _Robbin_ and his _Bess_,
And from a Purse that’s penniless,
_Libera nos Domine_.
From gold-finders, and night-weddings,
From _Womens_ eyes false liquid sheddings,
From _Rocks_, _Sands_, and _Cannon-shot_,
And from a stinking Chamber-pot,
From a hundred years old sinner, [p. 40.]
And Duke _Humphreys_ hungry dinner,
From stinking breath of an old Aunt[,]
From Parritors and Pursevants[,]
_Libera nos Domine_.
From a Dutchmans snick and sneeing,
From a nasty Irish being[,]
From a _Welchmans_ lofty bragging,
And a Monsieur loves not drabbing,
From begging Scotchmen and their pride,
From striving ’gainst both wind and tide,
From too much strong Wine and Beer,
Enforcing us to domineer,
_Libera nos Domine_.
[Following the above comes a group of more than usually objectionable
Songs, viz., _John_ and _Joan_, beginning “If you will give ear” (p. 46);
“Full forty times over I have strived to win,” same title (p. 61); The
Answer to it, “He is a fond Lover that doateth on scorn” (p. 62); Love’s
Tenement, “If any one do want a house” (p. 64); and A New Year’s Gift,
“Fair Lady, for your New Year’s Gift” (p. 81). These are all reserved for
the Chamber of Horrors. _Vide ante_, p. 230.]
[p. 103.]
_New ~England~ described._
Among the purifidian Sect,
I mean the counterfeit Elect:
Zealous bankrupts, Punks devout,
Preachers suspended, rabble rout,
Let them sell all, and out of hand
Prepare to go to _New England_,
To build new _Babel_ strong and sure,
Now call’d a Church unspotted pure.
There Milk from Springs, like Rivers, flows,
And Honey upon hawthorn grows;
Hemp, Wool, and Flax, there grows on trees,
The mould is fat, it cuts like cheese;
All fruits and herbs spring in the fields,
Tobacco it good plenty yields;
And there shall be a Church most pure,
Where you may find salvation sure.
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