Wit and drollery. Jovial poems. Corrected and amended, with new additions [ESTC R12497]

DMI number:

1671

Publication Date:

1682

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R12497

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Full Title:

WIT | AND | DROLLERY. | Jovial Poems. | [rule] | Corrected and Amended, with New | Additions. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for [i]Obadiah Blagrave[/i], at the [i]Bear[/i] in | St. [i]Pauls Church-Yard[/i], 1682.

Epigraph:

[i]Ut Nector Ingenium[/i].

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Collection of comic verse

Format:

Octavo

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: (1) Preface 'To The Reader', unpaged and unsigned. (2) 'Books sold by Obadiah Blagrave, at the Bear in St. Pauls Church-yard', unpaged and unsigned.

References:

NCBEL 334 (1682)

Related People

Publisher:

Obadiah Blagrave

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for Obadiah Blagrave, at the Bear in St. Pauls Church-Yard'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

It chanced Lysander that unhappy man

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pp.1-16

Poem Title:

The Lost Opportunity recovered.

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My mistress is not common

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pp.17-18

Poem Title:

A Rarity.

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I understand not fairest lady why

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pp.18-19

Poem Title:

Loves Freedom.

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To take in good part the squeeze of the hand

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pp.20-21

Poem Title:

Good Advice.

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What a' devil ail our poets all

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pp.21-25

Poem Title:

In Praise of Eating.

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Cease to argue for they err

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pp.25-27

Poem Title:

In Praise of Wine.

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Behind what then so to enlight the earth

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pp.28-30

Poem Title:

Upon Mr. Wadloes new Tavern and Sign, behind the Royal Exchange.

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I'll tell you a story if it be true

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pp.31-35

Poem Title:

To the Tune of the Black-Smith.

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Good people all I pray give ear

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pp.36-38

Poem Title:

Phil. Porters Farewell.

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Farewell Three Kings where I have spent

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pp.38-40

Poem Title:

The Second part.

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When rich men die whose purses swell

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pp.40-43

Poem Title:

On the Death of Jo. Wright.

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Master if I may do you no wrong

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pp.43-46

Poem Title:

The Cloaks Answer to the Poets Farewell.

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Here lies William de Valence

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pp.47-56

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There dwelt a man in fair Westmorland

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pp.57-59

Poem Title:

A Northern Ballad.

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Songs of sonnets and rustical roundelays

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pp.60-63

Poem Title:

The Hunting of the Gods.

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Long ere the morn

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pp.64-65

Poem Title:

The Hunters Song.

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Clear is the air and the morning is fair

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pp.66-69

Poem Title:

The Hunt.

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We seamen are the bonny boys

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pp.69-71

Poem Title:

The Saylors and Land-Souldiers Song.

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Good people give ear while a story I tell

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pp.71-74

Poem Title:

The Jovial Crew.

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I am a rogue and a stout one

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pp.74-79

Poem Title:

The Blind Beggar.

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A riddle a riddle mee neighbour John

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pp.79-81

Poem Title:

A West Country Song, made when the King was at Plymouth.

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As it fell one holy day hey down

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pp.81-86

Poem Title:

Little Musgrave and the Lady Bernard.

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There were two sisters they went a-playing

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pp.87-90

Poem Title:

The Miller and the Kings Daughters.

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O mother chave been a batchelour

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pp.90-93

Poem Title:

The West-Country Batchelors Complaint.

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In Lancashire where I was born

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pp.94-96

Poem Title:

The Lancashire Song.

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Now God alone that made all things

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pp.96-98

Poem Title:

The Leather Bottel.

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We'll go no more to Tunbridge Wells

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pp.99-101

Poem Title:

The New found Spaw.

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You maidens and wives and young widows rejoice

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pp.101-103

Poem Title:

Tunbridge Wells.

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A maiden of late

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pp.104-106

Poem Title:

The Maidens Longing.

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Bright Cynthia scorns

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pp.106-109

Poem Title:

The Epidemical Disease.

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Of late in the park a fair fancy was seen

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pp.110-111

Poem Title:

The Female Scuffle.

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There was a fair maiden came out of Kent

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pp.112-113

Poem Title:

The Maid and the Joyner.

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A young man lately in our town

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pp.113-114

Poem Title:

The Hobgoblin.

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Dear Jockey's gone to the wood

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pp.114-115

Poem Title:

Jockey and Jenny.

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Ads zours my dear Jone

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p.116

Poem Title:

The Country Course Complement.

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I'll sing ye a song that never was in print

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pp.117-119

Poem Title:

Nothing.

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Nothing thou elder brother even to shade

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pp.120-122

Poem Title:

The New Nothing.

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Whilst duns were knocking at my door

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pp.123-129

Poem Title:

The Ramble.

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Rat too rat too rat too rat tat too rat tat too

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pp.130-140

Poem Title:

A call to the Guard.

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The Quaker and his brats

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pp.140-144

Poem Title:

The Quakers Roundelay.

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I sing the praises of a fart

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pp.145-146

Poem Title:

On a Fart.

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From forth the Elysian fields

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pp.147-149

Poem Title:

Mad Maulkin.

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From the hag and hungry goblin

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pp.149-153

Poem Title:

Tom-A-Bedlam.

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The star that shines by daylight

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pp.153-156

Poem Title:

The Oakerman.

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Like a dog with a bottle tied fast to his tail

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p.157

Poem Title:

The Batchelor's Song.

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Like a dog that runs madding at sheep or at cows

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pp.158-159

Poem Title:

The Batchelors Song Retorted.

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Like a cat with tail fast held by a peg

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pp.159-160

Poem Title:

The Reply.

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How honest a thing is a wedding

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pp.161-162

Poem Title:

The Reply.

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How pleasant a thing were a wedding

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p.161

Poem Title:

On Matrimony.

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It chanced not long ago as I was walking

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pp.162-164

Poem Title:

The Bulls Feather.

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Of old soldiers the song you would hear

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pp.165-168

Poem Title:

Old Souldiers.

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My masters and friends and good people draw near

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pp.169-171

Poem Title:

The Cutpurse.

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Sir Eglamore that valiant knight

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pp.171-173

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Sir Eglamore.

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Upon the Change where merchants meet

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pp.174-177

Poem Title:

Have at All.

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I tell thee Dick where I have been

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pp.178-184

Poem Title:

The Wedding.

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I'll bark against the dog star

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pp.184-185

Poem Title:

Loving Mad Tom.

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Since life's but short and time amain

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pp.186-187

Poem Title:

A Carowsing Song.

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I oft have heard of Lidford law

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pp.188-190

Poem Title:

Lidford Law. A Song.

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O my dearest I shall grieve thee

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pp.191-193

Poem Title:

A Song.

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I sing the furious battles of the spheres

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pp.193-195

Poem Title:

Ad Johannuelem Leporem, Lepidissimum, Carmen Heroicum.

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A ballet a ballet let every poet

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pp.198-201

Poem Title:

Bagnal's Ballet, Supplied of what was left out in Musarum Deliciae.

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And how and how hast thou cried quittance

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pp.202-205

Poem Title:

Mr. Smith, to Sir John Mennis, upon the Surrender of Conway-Castle, by the Ar. B. Y.

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Mr. Smith

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James Smith

First Line:

Friend thou dost lash me with a story

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pp.205-207

Poem Title:

An answer to a Letter from Sir John Mennis, wherein he jeeres him for falling so quickly to the use of the Directory.

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I. S.

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James Smith

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In morn when Phoebus peeped through crevis

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pp.207-210

Poem Title:

Mr. Smith's taking a Purge.

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Mr. Smith

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James Smith

First Line:

No I protest not that I wish the gains

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pp.210-212

Poem Title:

The Preface to that most Elaborate Piece of Poetry, Entituled, Penelope Ulysses.

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O all ye cliptic spirits of the spheres

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pp.213-217

Poem Title:

The Invocation of Ulysses and Penelope.

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Of all the trades that ever I see

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pp.219-225

Poem Title:

The Blacksmith, As it was sung before Ulysses and Penelope at their Feast, when he returned from the Trojan Warrs, collected out of Homer, Virgill and Ovid, by some of the Modern Family of the Fancies.

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Now Townwit saith to witty friend

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pp.225-231

Poem Title:

The long Vacation.

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Lo precious rules are here made common

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pp.231-247

Poem Title:

On the Praise of Fat Men.

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Joan Easie got her a nag and a sledge

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p.247

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Of all occupations that nowadays are used

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pp.247-248

Poem Title:

Other Trades besides the Blacksmith.

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For he sits all day pricking

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p.248

Poem Title:

A Taylour.

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For he sits all day quaffing

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p.248

Poem Title:

The Tinker.

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For he sits all day a bunting

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pp.249-250

Poem Title:

A Baker.

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For he sits all day hooping

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p.249

Poem Title:

A Cooper.

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For he sits all day whisking

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p.249

Poem Title:

A Shoemaker.

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For he earns his money hardly

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p.250

Poem Title:

A Weaver.

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For he'll tell you many a prittle prattle

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p.250

Poem Title:

A Lawyer.

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And of all occupations

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pp.251-252

Poem Title:

A Saylor.

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Of all occupations

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p.251

Poem Title:

A Sempster.

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Of all occupations

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pp.252-254

Poem Title:

A Beggar.

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Let the trumpets sound

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pp.255-259

Poem Title:

A Medley.

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A merry jest I will you tell

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pp.259-262

Poem Title:

The Gelding of the Devil.

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The wit hath long beholding been

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pp.263-267

Poem Title:

The Song of the Capps.

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Three merry lads met at the Rose

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pp.267-269

Poem Title:

The Nose.

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The beard thick or thin

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pp.269-273

Poem Title:

In Praise of the Beard.

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Why should we boast of Arthur and his knights

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pp.273-277

Poem Title:

St. George for England.

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With an old song made by an old ancient pate

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pp.278-282

Poem Title:

The Old Courtier.

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With a new beard but lately trimmed

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pp.282-284

Poem Title:

The New Souldier.

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As I was walking I cannot tell how

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pp.285-286

Poem Title:

Narcissus.

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You that in love do mean to sport

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pp.287-288

Poem Title:

The Tobacconist.

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Since I must needs into thy school return

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p.288

Poem Title:

A Ladies Prayer to Cupid.

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Come all you maids that list to marry

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pp.289-291

Poem Title:

A Medley.

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There was a lady in the land

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pp.291-294

Poem Title:

The Jovial Tinker.

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You young men that want skill in wooing

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pp.295-296

Poem Title:

Cupids Directions.

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Oh love whose power and might

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pp.297-299

Poem Title:

A Mock-Song.

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Your letter I received

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pp.299-300

Poem Title:

The Answer.

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When young folks first begin to love

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pp.300-301

Poem Title:

Love Despis'd

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Oh the merry Christ Church bells

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pp.301-302

Poem Title:

The Bells of Oxford.

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Oh the merry tinker's crew

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p.302

Poem Title:

The Mock.

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Fools to themselves do riches prize

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p.303

Poem Title:

In Praise of Beauty.

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Here's that will challenge all the fair

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p.304

Poem Title:

Bartholomew Fair.

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Farewell ungrateful traitor

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pp.305-306

Poem Title:

The Farewel.

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Hail to mighty Venus at whose shrine

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pp.306-307

Poem Title:

Love in a Dream.

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Whither away my own Dick

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pp.307-308

Poem Title:

Dick and Nelly.

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Blush not redder than the morning

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pp.308-309

Poem Title:

To a Bride.

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In vain cruel nymph you my passion despise

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p.309

Poem Title:

The Resolv'd Lover.

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In January last on Munnonday at morn

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pp.310-311

Poem Title:

A Scotch Song.

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Under the branches of a spreading tree

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p.312

Poem Title:

Silvander Advis'd.

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Ah Cloris that I now could sit

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pp.313-314

Poem Title:

Song.

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Let some great joys pretend to find

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pp.314-315

Poem Title:

True Pleasures.

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Thou grief of my heart and thou pearl of my eyes

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p.316

Poem Title:

The Owl.

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I found my Celia one night undressed

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pp.317-318

Poem Title:

His Mistress Undrest.

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Ah Coridon in vain you boast

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pp.318-319

Poem Title:

Jealousie Complain'd of.

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Smiling Phillis has an air

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pp.319-320

Poem Title:

Song.

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Joy to the bridegroom fill the skies

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p.320

Poem Title:

A Nuptial Song.

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Sawney was tall and of noble race

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pp.321-322

Poem Title:

Sawnies Neglect.

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I sighed and I writ

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pp.322-323

Poem Title:

Song.

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Cloris I come to learn my fate

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pp.323-324

Poem Title:

Good Nature at Length.

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Down with this love that has made such a pother

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pp.325-326

Poem Title:

A Rant.

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Come all you pale lovers that sigh and complain

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pp.326-327

Poem Title:

Song.

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Since Celia's my foe

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pp.327-329

Poem Title:

The Resolve.

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At last I find tis in vain to believe

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pp.329-331

Poem Title:

The Modish Lover.

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Insult not too much on thy fading success

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pp.331-332

Poem Title:

The Rivall.

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Believe me dear Moll

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pp.333-334

Poem Title:

Experience.

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Thou damned perpetual peevish folly

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pp.334-335

Poem Title:

A Rant against Cupid.

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Poor hopeless emblem of Amintor's heart

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pp.336-337

Poem Title:

On a Rose taken from Celia's Breast.

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How severe is forgetful old age

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pp.337-338

Poem Title:

Song.

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Wife prithee come give me thy hand now

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pp.338-341

Poem Title:

The Kind Husband but Imperious Wife.

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You meaner beauties of the night

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pp.341-342

Poem Title:

To his Beautiful Mistress.

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My name is honest Harry

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pp.342-344

Poem Title:

Harry and Moll.

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In the cool shady grove

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p.344

Poem Title:

The Vision.

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Happy is the man that takes delight

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pp.345-346

Poem Title:

The Libertine.

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Thou joy of all hearts and delight of all eyes

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p.345

Poem Title:

The Serenading Song.

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Ah cruel bloody fate what canst thou now do more

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pp.346-347

Poem Title:

Phillis bewailing the Loss of Philander.

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Was ever a man so vexed with a trull

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pp.347-350

Poem Title:

The Furious Scold Served in Her Kind.

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Why should my Celia now be coy

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pp.350-351

Poem Title:

The Coy Girle.

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First Line:

Ah Celia when we lately loved

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pp.351-352

Poem Title:

The Disappointed Lovers.

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