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
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A Lover I am and a lover I'll be
- Page No:
- p. 2
- Poem Title:
- The second Song in the Masque at Court.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How hard is a heart to be cur'd
- Page No:
- pp. 3-4
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the King's House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Cloria let my passion ever
- Page No:
- pp. 4-5
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the Kings House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A wife I do hate
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- p. 9
- Poem Title:
- Her ANSWER.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Silvia tell me how long it will be
- Page No:
- 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.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Silvia know I never shall more
- Page No:
- p. 10
- Poem Title:
- His REPLY.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Where-ever I am and whatever I do
- Page No:
- pp. 10-11
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the Kings House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Poor Celia once was very fair
- Page No:
- pp. 11-12
- Poem Title:
- The Coy Lady slighted at last.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Flatman
- First Line:
- World thou art so wicked grown
- Page No:
- pp. 12-13
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the Kings House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hold hold and no further advance
- Page No:
- pp. 13-41[14]
- Poem Title:
- A Song by a Person of Quality.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O you powerful Gods if I must be
- Page No:
- pp. 15-16
- Poem Title:
- A SONG call'd The Injur'd Lady.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come live with me and be my whore
- Page No:
- pp. 16-17
- Poem Title:
- The Wooing Rogue. The Tune is, My Freedom is all my Joy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How severe is forgetful old age
- Page No:
- pp. 17-18
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the Kings House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Never perswade me to't I vow
- Page No:
- pp. 18-19
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the King's House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Farewel farewel fond love under whose childish whip
- Page No:
- p. 19
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Have I not told thee dearest mine
- Page No:
- pp. 20-21
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the Kings House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love fare thee well
- Page No:
- pp. 21-22
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Bright Celia know 'twas not thine eyes
- Page No:
- pp. 22-23
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the Kings House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Many declare what torments there are
- Page No:
- p. 22
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- All the flatteries of Fate
- Page No:
- p. 24
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love that is skrew'd a pitch too high
- Page No:
- p. 25
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the Kings House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What care I though the world reprove
- Page No:
- pp. 25-26
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Burn and consume burn wretched heart
- Page No:
- pp. 26-27
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O fain would I before I die
- Page No:
- pp. 27-28
- Poem Title:
- A Song at the Dukes House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Thus all our life long we are frolick and gay
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- pp. 30-31
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- First Line:
- Beneath a Myrtle-shade
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- pp. 33-34
- Poem Title:
- The Disconsolate Lover.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Why should my Celia now be coy
- Page No:
- pp. 34-35
- Poem Title:
- The subtil and coy Girl. The tune, Silvia tell me how long it will be.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There was and there was and there was
- Page No:
- pp. 35-37
- Poem Title:
- The Drawing of Valentines.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Was ever man so vex'd with a Trull
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My wishes greet the Navy of the Dutch
- Page No:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- And now all Nature seem'd in love
- Page No:
- p. 55
- Poem Title:
- A Description of the Spring.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Sir Henry Wotton
- First Line:
- Stay Shepherd prethee Shepherd stay
- Page No:
- pp. 56-57
- Poem Title:
- On a Shepherd losing his Mistris. Tune, Amongst the Myrtles as I walk'd.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here stands the man that for his Countreys good
- Page No:
- pp. 57-58
- Poem Title:
- The Soldiers Resolution.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A Great Pretender to Gentility
- Page No:
- p. 59
- Poem Title:
- On a Pretender to Gentility, suspected to be a Highway-man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rocks Shelves and Sands and all farewel
- Page No:
- p. 67
- Poem Title:
- On Men escap'd drowning in a Tempest.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Heaven did not weep but in its swelling eye
- Page No:
- pp. 68-69
- Poem Title:
- On a mighty Rain.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Madam I cannot court your sprightly eyes
- Page No:
- pp. 69-70
- Poem Title:
- The Blunt Lover.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come all you noble you that are neat ones
- Page No:
- pp. 73-75
- Poem Title:
- A Song caled Hide-Park.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Jack Will and Tom are ye come
- Page No:
- p. 82
- Poem Title:
- A Catch for three Voices.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nor Love nor Fate dare I accuse
- Page No:
- 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
- Page No:
- 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 StrodeWilliam 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
- Page No:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The poor man fasts because he has no meat
- Page No:
- p. 109
- Poem Title:
- Upon Fasting.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- 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 HarringtonRobert 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:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Phyllis for shame let us improve
- Page No:
- pp. 115-116
- Poem Title:
- The Advice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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
- Page No:
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- 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:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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