Westminster Drollery [R25197]

DMI number:

1775

Publication Date:

1671

Volume Number:

1 of 2

ESTC number:

R25197

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:8793341

Shelfmark:

EBBO

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Collection of songs

Format:

Octavo

Content/Publication

First Line:

I pass all my hours in a shady old grove

Page No:

pp. 1-2

Poem Title:

The first Song in the Ball at Court.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

A Lover I am and a lover I'll be

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p. 2

Poem Title:

The second Song in the Masque at Court.

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First Line:

How hard is a heart to be cur'd

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pp. 3-4

Poem Title:

A Song at the King's House.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Cloria let my passion ever

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pp. 4-5

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A wife I do hate

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pp. 5-6

Poem Title:

The last Song at the Kings House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Wycherley

First Line:

Wer't thou but half so wise as thou art fair

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pp. 6-7

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Alas what shall I do I have taken on me now

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pp. 7-8

Poem Title:

A late Song by a Person of Quality.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Damon I tell thee I never shall be

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p. 9

Poem Title:

Her ANSWER.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Silvia tell me how long it will be

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p. 9 Silvia.

Poem Title:

Made by a Person of Honour. But the Answer and Reply lately added.

Attribution:

Made by a Person of Honour.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Silvia know I never shall more

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p. 10

Poem Title:

His REPLY.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Where-ever I am and whatever I do

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pp. 10-11

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Poor Celia once was very fair

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pp. 11-12

Poem Title:

The Coy Lady slighted at last.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Flatman

First Line:

World thou art so wicked grown

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pp. 12-13

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Hold hold and no further advance

Page No:

pp. 13-41[14]

Poem Title:

A Song by a Person of Quality.

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First Line:

O you powerful Gods if I must be

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pp. 15-16

Poem Title:

A SONG call'd The Injur'd Lady.

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First Line:

Come live with me and be my whore

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pp. 16-17

Poem Title:

The Wooing Rogue. The Tune is, My Freedom is all my Joy.

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First Line:

How severe is forgetful old age

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pp. 17-18

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

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First Line:

Never perswade me to't I vow

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pp. 18-19

Poem Title:

A Song at the King's House.

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First Line:

Farewel farewel fond love under whose childish whip

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p. 19

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Have I not told thee dearest mine

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pp. 20-21

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

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Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Love fare thee well

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pp. 21-22

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

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First Line:

Bright Celia know 'twas not thine eyes

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pp. 22-23

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

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First Line:

Many declare what torments there are

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p. 22

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

All the flatteries of Fate

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p. 24

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Love that is skrew'd a pitch too high

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p. 25

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

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First Line:

What care I though the world reprove

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pp. 25-26

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Burn and consume burn wretched heart

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pp. 26-27

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

O fain would I before I die

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pp. 27-28

Poem Title:

A Song at the Dukes House.

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Not attributed

First Line:

Thus all our life long we are frolick and gay

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pp. 28-29

Poem Title:

A Song called, And to each pretty Lass we will give a green Gown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

On the bank of a Brook as I sate fishing

Page No:

pp. 29-30

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Celemina of my heart

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pp. 30-31

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Beneath a Myrtle-shade

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pp. 31-33

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

As I lay all alone on my bed slumbring

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pp. 33-34

Poem Title:

The Disconsolate Lover.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why should my Celia now be coy

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pp. 34-35

Poem Title:

The subtil and coy Girl. The tune, Silvia tell me how long it will be.

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First Line:

There was and there was and there was

Page No:

pp. 35-37

Poem Title:

The Drawing of Valentines.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Was ever man so vex'd with a Trull

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pp. 37-40

Poem Title:

A late and true story of a furious Scold, served in her kind. The tune, Step stately.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

My Mistriss she is fully known

Page No:

pp. 40-42

Poem Title:

A Song on the Declensions. The tune is, Shackle de hay.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How unhappy a Lover am I

Page No:

pp. 41[14]-15

Poem Title:

A SONG. A Dialogue between two Friends. Tune, How severe is forgetful old age.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Seek not to know a woman for she's worse

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p. 41 [14]

Poem Title:

A Rhodomontade on his cruel Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

My Mistris she loves Dignities

Page No:

pp. 42-43

Poem Title:

A Song of the three Degrees of Comparison. The tune, And 'tis the Knave of Clubs bears all the sway.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Wife prethee come give me thy hand now

Page No:

pp. 44-47

Poem Title:

The kind Husband, but imperious Wife. The first part of the Tune his, and the latter part hers.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

To little or no purpose have I spent all my days

Page No:

pp. 47-48

Poem Title:

A Song at the Kings House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Make ready fair Lady to night

Page No:

p. 47

Poem Title:

A Song at the Dukes House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

My name is honest Harry

Page No:

pp. 48-50

Poem Title:

A Song, The tune, Robin Rowser.

Attribution:

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First Line:

I Saw a Peacock with a fiery tail

Page No:

p. 50

Poem Title:

These following are to be understood in two ways.

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Not attributed

First Line:

My wishes greet the Navy of the Dutch

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pp. 50-51

Poem Title:

On the Sea-fight with the Hollanders in the Rumps time.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'll tell you true whither doth stray

Page No:

pp. 51-52

Poem Title:

The Answer to Ask me no more whither doth stray.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Noble lovely virtuous creature

Page No:

pp. 52-53

Poem Title:

A Dialgoue between William and Harry, Riding on the Way.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Henry Wotton

First Line:

You meaner Beauties of the night

Page No:

p. 54

Poem Title:

A Gentleman on his beautiful Mistress.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

And now all Nature seem'd in love

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p. 55

Poem Title:

A Description of the Spring.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Henry Wotton

First Line:

Stay Shepherd prethee Shepherd stay

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pp. 56-57

Poem Title:

On a Shepherd losing his Mistris. Tune, Amongst the Myrtles as I walk'd.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Here stands the man that for his Countreys good

Page No:

pp. 57-58

Poem Title:

The Soldiers Resolution.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Two Fellows gazing at the Cross in Cheap

Page No:

p. 58

Poem Title:

On the Golden Cross in Cheapside.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A Great Pretender to Gentility

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p. 59

Poem Title:

On a Pretender to Gentility, suspected to be a Highway-man.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

A Blith and bonny Country Lass

Page No:

pp. 59-60

Poem Title:

A Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Lodge

First Line:

If Love be Life I long to die

Page No:

p. 61

Poem Title:

A Song on Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Francis Davison

First Line:

I serve Amynta whiter than the snow

Page No:

p. 62

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Shepherd what's Love I pray thee tell

Page No:

pp. 63-64

Poem Title:

The Description of Love, in a Dialogue between two Shepherds, Will and Tom.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh]

First Line:

Run to Loves Lottery run Maids and rejoyce

Page No:

pp. 64-65

Poem Title:

A Song call'd, Loves Lottery. At the Duke's House.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Poor Cloris wept and from her eyes

Page No:

pp. 65-66

Poem Title:

On a Gentleman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Lyly

First Line:

I Formerly in Countreys oft have been

Page No:

pp. 67-68

Poem Title:

On a great Heat in Egypt.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Rocks Shelves and Sands and all farewel

Page No:

p. 67

Poem Title:

On Men escap'd drowning in a Tempest.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Heaven did not weep but in its swelling eye

Page No:

pp. 68-69

Poem Title:

On a mighty Rain.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Madam I cannot court your sprightly eyes

Page No:

pp. 69-70

Poem Title:

The Blunt Lover.

Attribution:

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First Line:

A Watch lost in a Tavern That's a Crime

Page No:

p. 70

Poem Title:

On a Watch lost in a Tavern.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When as the Nightingale chanted her Vesper

Page No:

p70 A Song, with the Latine to it.

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Cleveland

First Line:

Dote neither on Women nor on Wine

Page No:

pp. 71-72

Poem Title:

De Vino & Venere.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

He that with Wine Wine thinks t'expel

Page No:

p. 72

Poem Title:

On Wine.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Come all you noble you that are neat ones

Page No:

pp. 73-75

Poem Title:

A Song caled Hide-Park.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Coy one I say Be gone

Page No:

pp. 75-77

Poem Title:

To his Coy Mistris.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ask me no more why I do wear

Page No:

pp. 77-79

Poem Title:

A Dialogue concerning Hair, between a Man and a Woman.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

That Beauty I ador'd before

Page No:

pp. 79-81

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Is she gone let her go faith Boys I care not

Page No:

p. 81

Poem Title:

The Careless Swain.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Chloris when I do thee present

Page No:

pp. 82-83

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Jack Will and Tom are ye come

Page No:

p. 82

Poem Title:

A Catch for three Voices.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

Nor Love nor Fate dare I accuse

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pp. 83-84

Poem Title:

The forsaken Maid, A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Brome

First Line:

A Taylor but a man of upright dealing

Page No:

pp. 84-85

Poem Title:

On a Precise Taylor.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Harrington

First Line:

Ill tide this cruel Peace that hath gain'd a War on me

Page No:

pp. 85-87

Poem Title:

The Scotch Girls Complaint for an Englishmans going away, when my Lord Monk came for England.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tell me you Anti-Saints why Glass

Page No:

pp. 87-88

Poem Title:

On Fairford curious Church-Windows, which scap'd the War and the Puritan.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Corbett

First Line:

Will you please to hear a new Ditty

Page No:

pp. 88-89

Poem Title:

The Soldiers praise of a Lowse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Methought the other night

Page No:

p. 90

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O my dearest I shall grieve thee

Page No:

pp. 91-93

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Some years of late in eighty eight

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pp. 93-95

Poem Title:

An old Song on the Spanish Armado.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beat on proud billows Boreas blow

Page No:

pp. 96-98

Poem Title:

The Loyal Prisoner.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Roger L'Estrange

First Line:

My first Love whom all beauty did adorn

Page No:

pp. 99-100

Poem Title:

On his first Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Farewel fair Saint may not the seas and wind

Page No:

p. 100

Poem Title:

On his Mistriss going to Sea.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stay lusty blood where wilt thou seek

Page No:

p. 101

Poem Title:

On a Blush.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

There is not half so warm a fire

Page No:

pp. 102-103

Poem Title:

In praise of a Mask.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You'l ask perhaps wherefore I stay

Page No:

p. 103

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Keep on your Mask and hide your eye

Page No:

p. 104

Poem Title:

To his Mistris.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

I'll tell you how the Rose did first grow red

Page No:

p. 105

Poem Title:

To his Mistris.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

William Baker

First Line:

Hic jacet John Shorrthose

Page No:

p. 105

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Go thou gentle whisp'ring Wind

Page No:

pp. 106-107

Poem Title:

A Sigh.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Is she not wondrous fair O but I see

Page No:

p. 106

Poem Title:

On his Mistris.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Still to be neat still to be drest

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pp. 107-108

Poem Title:

To a spruce and very finely deck'd Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

As we went wandring all the night

Page No:

pp. 108-109

Poem Title:

The Good Fellows Song.

Attribution:

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First Line:

The poor man fasts because he has no meat

Page No:

p. 109

Poem Title:

Upon Fasting.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

One wish'd me to a Wife that's fair and young

Page No:

p. 110

Poem Title:

[untitled]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Harrington

Robert Devereux

First Line:

Disdain me still that I may ever love

Page No:

p. 110

Poem Title:

On a Lover that would not be beloved again.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Herbert

First Line:

Come Lads and Lasses each one that passes

Page No:

pp. 111-112

Poem Title:

A Rural Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Was ever grief so great as mine

Page No:

pp. 112-114

Poem Title:

A Scotch Song, called Gilderoy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I will not do a sacrifice

Page No:

pp. 114-115

Poem Title:

A Song to his Mistris.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

Phyllis for shame let us improve

Page No:

pp. 115-116

Poem Title:

The Advice.

Attribution:

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First Line:

Beneath a myrtle shade

Page No:

pp. 116-117

Poem Title:

A Vision.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Like a Dog that runs madding at Sheep or at Cows

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pp. 118-120

Poem Title:

The Batchelors Satyr retorted.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Flatman

First Line:

Like a Dog with a Bottle fat ty'd to his Tail

Page No:

p. 118

Poem Title:

The Bathchelors Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Flatman

First Line:

Like a Cat with her Tail fast hol'd by a Peg

Page No:

pp. 120-121

Poem Title:

A Reply to the Batchelors Satyr retorted.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How pleasant a thing is a Wedding

Page No:

pp. 121-122

Poem Title:

On a Wedding.

Attribution:

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First Line:

How honest a thing is a Wedding

Page No:

p. 122

Poem Title:

The Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your hand with Nature at a noble strife

Page No:

pp. 122-124

Poem Title:

On His Majesties Picture drawn by a Fair Lady.

Attribution:

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