Grammatical drollery, consisting of poems & songs [ESTC R34461]
- DMI number:
- 1667
- Publication Date:
- 1682
- Volume Number:
- 1 of 1
- ESTC number:
- R34461
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:14445002
- Shelfmark:
- EEBO - Bod
- Full Title:
- GRAMMATICAL | Drollery, | Consisting of | POEMS & SONGS. | Wherein the RULES of the | [i]NOUNS[/i] & [i]VERBS[/i] | IN THE | ACCEDENCE | Are pleasantly made Easie, | FOR THE | Benefit of any that delight | in a Tract of this Nature. | [rule] | By [i]W. H.[/i] | [rule] [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for [i]Tho. Fox[/i], and are to be sold at the Angel | and at the Star in [i]Westminster-hall[/i]. 1682.
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Genres:
- Collection of 17th century verse, Collection of comic verse, and Collection of educational texts
- Format:
- Octavo
- Comments:
- CONTENTS: (1) 'Grammatical Drollery', pp. 1-30; (2) 'Poems and Songs', pp. 31-117.
- References:
- NCBEL 334 (1682)
- Editor:
- William Hicks
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ODNB. Initials 'W. H.' on title page of EEBO copy expanded in manuscript to read 'W. Hickes'.
- First Line:
- The adverbs had a quarrel as they say
- Page No:
- pp.1-6
- Poem Title:
- The Adverbs Quarrel.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- And being all a-sat in the adverbs hall
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- The Postscript.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- The quarrel of the adverbs being known
- Page No:
- pp.7-15
- Poem Title:
- The Battle of the Verbs.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- The interjections living so near the concords
- Page No:
- pp.16-17
- Poem Title:
- The Concords.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- When the adverbs' quarrel began to cease
- Page No:
- pp.17-20
- Poem Title:
- The Conjunctions.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- A preposition most commonly is set
- Page No:
- pp.20-22
- Poem Title:
- The Prepositions.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- An interjection is a part I find
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- The Interjections.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- There be also belonging to the infinitive mood
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- The Gerunds.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- There do also belong unto verbs two
- Page No:
- p.24
- Poem Title:
- The Supines.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- The verbs have only four conjugations
- Page No:
- p.25
- Poem Title:
- The Conjugations.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- There are among the verbs persons also
- Page No:
- pp.25-26
- Poem Title:
- The Persons.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- A pronoun is a fellow much like to a noun
- Page No:
- pp.27-28
- Poem Title:
- The Pronouns courting a Mistriss.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- A participle doth participate
- Page No:
- pp.28-30
- Poem Title:
- The Participles.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- My love is a pretty lass
- Page No:
- pp.31-33
- Poem Title:
- A Mock-Song to Beauty.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- The tailor's trade is ancient all we know
- Page No:
- pp.33-36
- Poem Title:
- In praise of the Taylors Trade.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Go go you slut
- Page No:
- pp.37-38
- Poem Title:
- A Song, To the Tune of Well, well, 'tis true, | That I'm fallen in love, and 'tis with you.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Thus have you heard the tailor over and over
- Page No:
- p.37
- Poem Title:
- The Postscript.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- A chambermaid was got with child
- Page No:
- pp.38-39
- Poem Title:
- A Song on a Lady and her Chamber-Maid.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- I'm in love says Noll indeed says Doll
- Page No:
- pp.39-41
- Poem Title:
- A Song called the Hasty Wedding. The Tune is the Gunfleet.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Henceforth I never more will hunger
- Page No:
- pp.41-48
- Poem Title:
- Iter Orientale: or, a Voyage from London to Chipping-Unger in Essex; performed by some Gentlemen in August 1674.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- I once for a fancy did love pretty Nancy
- Page No:
- pp.48-50
- Poem Title:
- A new Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Thus have you heard our iter orientale
- Page No:
- p.48
- Poem Title:
- The Postscript.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Let's strive to improve our talent of love
- Page No:
- p.50
- Poem Title:
- A new Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Prithee Caelia tell me why
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- A new Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Gone is my dearest she I so admired
- Page No:
- pp.52-53
- Poem Title:
- A new Song: The Tune is, Mr. Staggins his Minuit which he made for the Ball at Whitehal, 1673.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Rouse up boys ease destroys
- Page No:
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- A new Song. The Tune is, The Duke of Lorains March.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- No scornful beauty ever shall boast
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- A Song. To which, the two last Verses were lately added.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- And first she's counted masculine
- Page No:
- pp.56-58
- Poem Title:
- A Song call'd, My Mistriss is all the Genders. The Tune, Shackle de Hay.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's name.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- My mistress she hath policy
- Page No:
- pp.58-60
- Poem Title:
- My Mistriss understands all the Cases. To the same Tune.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- My Nanny quoth he why Janny quoth she
- Page No:
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- A new Song, to the new Jig-tune.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- My mistress she is fully known
- Page No:
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- A Song on the Declensions. The Tune, Shackle de Hay.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- My mistress she loves dignities
- Page No:
- pp.64-65
- Poem Title:
- The Comparisons. The Tune, And 'tis the Knave of Clubs bears all the Sway.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- The verbs a battle had of late they say
- Page No:
- pp.65-67
- Poem Title:
- Of the Five kinds of Verbs.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- The battle of the verbs being fully known
- Page No:
- pp.67-70
- Poem Title:
- The Moods.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- The tenses they being servants to the moods
- Page No:
- pp.70-71
- Poem Title:
- Of the Tenses.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Twas just the day 'fore twenty ten
- Page No:
- pp.72-75
- Poem Title:
- On the Squibs and Crackers thrown on the Lord Mayors day.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Come my Molly let us be jolly
- Page No:
- pp.75-76
- Poem Title:
- A Song, to the Tune of Thomas I cannot.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Clear up those stormy brows and teach
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- A Song. The Tune, My Dame Joan hath pawn'd her Kittle.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Come my dirty pug away
- Page No:
- p.78
- Poem Title:
- A Mock-Song to Come my Daphne.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Come my bully rock away
- Page No:
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- Another Drunken Mock to Come my Daphne.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Come hither my dearest come hither to me
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- The Wooing Gallant. A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- In sixteen hundred forty nine
- Page No:
- pp.81-86
- Poem Title:
- Upon the taking down of the Kings Arms at Oxford, in the time of the Rump, viz. 1649. who instead of plucking down them on the Gate of the Physick-Garden in Oxford, they were such excellent Heralds, that they pluckt down the Earl of Danby's Arms, who was the Founder there.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Mall I never yet knew thy mind
- Page No:
- p.87
- Poem Title:
- A Mock-Song to Cellamina: And to that Tune.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Though squibs and crackers thick did fly
- Page No:
- pp.88-95
- Poem Title:
- Iter Occidentale: or, a Western Voyage from the Old Exchange to the Gridiron near Charing-cross in the Strand; and perform'd by five Gentlemen, Nov. 5. 1673.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- I always resolved to be from the charms
- Page No:
- pp.96-97
- Poem Title:
- A new Song, To the Tune of The Flatteries of Fate. With the Answer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- I pity thy passion intoxicate lover
- Page No:
- pp.97-98
- Poem Title:
- The Answer to the last Song. And to that Tune.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Since you will needs my heart possess
- Page No:
- pp.98-99
- Poem Title:
- A Song. With the Answer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Since sir your heart will then away
- Page No:
- pp.100-101
- Poem Title:
- The Answer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Francelia's heart is still the same
- Page No:
- p.101
- Poem Title:
- A Song call'd Francelia: With the Answer. To the Tune of Augusta.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Francelia's heart is still the same
- Page No:
- p.102
- Poem Title:
- The Answer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Why should we ere beauty fade
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- A Song set by Mr. Staggins. With the Answer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Why should we ever think of love
- Page No:
- p.103
- Poem Title:
- The Answer.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Alas what shall I do
- Page No:
- pp.104-105
- Poem Title:
- An excellent Sgng. [misprint for 'Song']
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- I know I'm no poet
- Page No:
- pp.105-108
- Poem Title:
- On a Beautiful Miss.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Wife come give me thy hand now
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- The Patient Man, and the Scolding Wife.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Was ever man so happy as I sir
- Page No:
- p.111
- Poem Title:
- The Doating Lover.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- Now that love's holiday is come
- Page No:
- pp.112-116
- Poem Title:
- A Song on a Wedding.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
- First Line:
- When in the month of January
- Page No:
- pp.116-117
- Poem Title:
- A positive Farewel to Love.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Hicks's initials.
- Attributed To:
- William Hicks
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