Oxford Drollery [R258]

DMI number:

1763

Publication Date:

1671

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R258

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:12409220

Shelfmark:

EEBO

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Collection of songs

Format:

Octavo

Content/Publication

First Line:

Ile tell you a jest I never did know in my lif

Page No:

pp. 1-4

Poem Title:

A Bull Droll. Tune is, I prethee sweet heart come tell me and do not lye now.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

My Father once did sit him down to spin

Page No:

pp. 4-7

Poem Title:

The second Part of the Bull Droll

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

In rime dear love I humbly crave the favour

Page No:

pp. 7-15

Poem Title:

On a well featur'd Gentlewoman

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

And is not she in vertues very zealous

Page No:

p. 15

Poem Title:

Postscript

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Why death did honest John so soon remove

Page No:

pp. 15-20

Poem Title:

An Elegy on the death of John Seamore formerly a Tailor, but lately Water-caryer, Feweller and Porter to Mr. Brome Whorwood at Halton near Oxford, Drown'd in his Moat on a Christmass eve in a great frost, he was seventy years old.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

So I say too when he did trample on't

Page No:

p. 20

Poem Title:

The Distich

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Come come away to the Tavern I say

Page No:

pp. 21-22

Poem Title:

Two Parliament Troopers who lay sick in Scotland: In Imitation of the Song of Bow Bells

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

You see his Name implies a watry desire

Page No:

p. 21

Poem Title:

Distich

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Then Lental his name shall altered be

Page No:

pp. 22-23

Poem Title:

The Sarabrand

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Was ever man so vex'd with a Wife

Page No:

pp. 23-24

Poem Title:

The new Scolding Wife. Tune, Gossips Frolick.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

A Gallant once did wooe a Lass

Page No:

pp. 25-26

Poem Title:

The Scornful Lass. Tune, The Gun-fleet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

And first she's counted masculine

Page No:

pp. 26-28

Poem Title:

A Song call'd my Mistress is all the Genders. Tune, Shackle de Hay.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

My mistress she hath policy

Page No:

pp. 29-31

Poem Title:

My Mistress understands all the Cases, and therefore a great Lawyer. Tune, Shackle de Hay.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Why should Clia now be coy

Page No:

pp. 31-32

Poem Title:

A Song. Tune, Why should Betty now slight my Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Why Nanny quoth he Why Janny quoth she

Page No:

pp. 32-34

Poem Title:

Quoth He, and Quoth She Tune. The new Jig.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

I always resolv'd to be free from the charms

Page No:

pp. 34-35

Poem Title:

A SONG. Tune, The Ghosts at the Kings house.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

A Pox upon this paltry peevish whining love

Page No:

pp. 35-36

Poem Title:

A SONG. Tune, The Duke of Richmond's Frolicks.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Down in a Valley enameled all with Flowers

Page No:

pp. 36-38

Poem Title:

A Song on a Swain and his Mistress

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Come my Molly Let us be jolly

Page No:

pp. 38-40

Poem Title:

A SONG. Tune, Thomas I cannot.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Was ever man so happy as I Sir

Page No:

pp. 40-41

Poem Title:

The over Amorous Lover, a Song

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Come my pretty Nan I must be the man

Page No:

pp. 41-42

Poem Title:

The Confident Gallant with her answer. Tune.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Prethee friend be gone for I will ha' none

Page No:

p. 42

Poem Title:

Her Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Now woe is me poor man

Page No:

p. 43

Poem Title:

A SONG. To a Melancholly Tune.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Come hither my dearest come hither to me

Page No:

pp. 44-45

Poem Title:

The wooing Gallant a SONG. Tune, Mrs. Mary's Delight.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Poor Shepheard I am fallen in love

Page No:

pp. 45-46

Poem Title:

The Doating Shepheard.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Welcome death the cure of all my sorrow

Page No:

pp. 46-47

Poem Title:

On a Maid that dyed for Love

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

I have loved long in vain I have loved long in vain

Page No:

pp. 47-48

Poem Title:

An Answer to Faithless Swain, and to that Tune

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

I To a pretty Maid did go

Page No:

pp. 49-51

Poem Title:

The Gaming Girle. Tune, My Dog and I.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

I Lately went to piss

Page No:

pp. 51-52

Poem Title:

The bold Girle. A Gentleman being at piss, she clap'd him on the breech, and bid him turn the other side, for that run out. Tune, My Lady and her Mad being on a merry Pin.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Lately I saw a very pretty Lass boy

Page No:

pp. 52-54

Poem Title:

Loves Riddle. Tune, Come sweetheart and let me love thee.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

He's not a true Lover that's faithless and trothless

Page No:

pp. 54-55

Poem Title:

A SONG. Tune, The Tyrant hath stoln my dearest away.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Poor perjur'd Clia drench thine eyne

Page No:

pp. 56-58

Poem Title:

The Perjur'd Maid.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Hur was tell hur now a pretty tale

Page No:

pp. 58-59

Poem Title:

A Welch Song. Tune, Mrs Margaret.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

My name is honest Jack

Page No:

pp. 59-61

Poem Title:

The pritty but constant Girle. To a new Tune.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

My Love is a pretty Lass

Page No:

pp. 61-63

Poem Title:

The mock-song to the same Tune.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

When first I did Clarissa see

Page No:

pp. 64-65 .

Poem Title:

The Despairing Lover. Tune, My Dog and I.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Come my durty pug away

Page No:

pp. 65-66

Poem Title:

A Mock-song to Come my Daphny

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Was he not kind enough kind enough

Page No:

p. 66

Poem Title:

The Answer to Had she not care enough of this old man, and the same Tune.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

I have gone up and down through all the Town

Page No:

p. 67

Poem Title:

The woong Lady. Tune, Mrs. Dodfords fancy.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

And if he will love me

Page No:

pp. 68-69

Poem Title:

The Saralrand to it.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

When I woo'd Carinda first

Page No:

pp. 69-70

Poem Title:

On his Mistress grown old. Tune, The old Lalore.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

When Aurelia late I treated

Page No:

pp. 70-71

Poem Title:

The Answer to Aurelia

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Hicks

First Line:

Blind Love till this hour

Page No:

pp. 74-75 [76-77]

Poem Title:

A New Song and Tune

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Aurelia first I courted

Page No:

pp. 75-74 [76]

Poem Title:

And first Aurelia, the last verse being lately added

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When in the month of January

Page No:

pp. 78-79

Poem Title:

A Mock-song to Love. Tune, Jack Pudding.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I know I'm no poet

Page No:

pp. 79-83

Poem Title:

A Mock song to beauty. Tune, To drive the cold winter away.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Since you will needs my heart possess

Page No:

pp. 83-84

Poem Title:

A SONG

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jone to the Maypole away let us run

Page No:

pp. 85-87

Poem Title:

A Rural Song, the third and fourth verses being lately added.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

She's not the fairest of her name

Page No:

pp. 87-88

Poem Title:

A SONG. Tune, La bouenet.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be not afraid the fairest the rarest

Page No:

pp. 88-89

Poem Title:

A Song, with the Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Jordan

First Line:

Nay pish nay fie you'l venture to enter

Page No:

p. 89

Poem Title:

The Answer, the two last verses added lately.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Clear up those stormy brows and teach

Page No:

pp. 90-91

Poem Title:

A SONG. Tune, My Dame Jone hath pawn'd her Kettle.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Adieu thou cold companion of my bed adieu

Page No:

pp. 92-93

Poem Title:

The Maids Complaint. Tune, Gerrards Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Stevens

First Line:

Prethee tell me faithless Swain

Page No:

pp. 94-95

Poem Title:

The faithless Swain.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Charles Sedley

First Line:

Well well 'tis true that I have found

Page No:

pp. 95-96

Poem Title:

The Answer to Well, well 'tis true.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Full forty times over I strived to win

Page No:

pp. 97-98

Poem Title:

The Ladies Fort besieged

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Rich Bawdybrowne

First Line:

Why shouldst thou swear I am forsworn

Page No:

p. 99

Poem Title:

Mr. Lovelaces Song with the Answer

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Lovelace

First Line:

I Needs must say thou art forsworn

Page No:

p. 100

Poem Title:

Her Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Mistake me not I am as cold as hot

Page No:

p. 101

Poem Title:

A Song call'd Mistake me not.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Each greedy hand doth catch & pluck the flower

Page No:

p. 102

Poem Title:

A Caveat for Maids

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Injurious pin how durst thou come so nigh

Page No:

pp. 103-104

Poem Title:

On a Gentleman being accidentally run into the eye with a pin by a Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Faint Amorist dost thou think

Page No:

pp. 104-105

Poem Title:

Advice to a Friend.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In morn when Phoebus peep'd through crevis

Page No:

pp. 105-106

Poem Title:

On a Gentleman taking a Purge.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

James Smith

First Line:

Since fortune thou art grown so kind

Page No:

pp. 107-109

Poem Title:

The Italian wish Translated, call'd I ask no more.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As in my private walk I was

Page No:

pp. 109-110

Poem Title:

The scornful Maid. Tune, The blazing Torch.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fond Lovers what d'e mean

Page No:

pp. 110-112

Poem Title:

A Song call'd fond Lovers.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There was a man two sons he had

Page No:

pp. 112-113

Poem Title:

A SONG. Tune, Jogg on.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Some men Love's fiery passions can resist

Page No:

pp. 114-115

Poem Title:

The Answer to Loves fiery passions.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear canst thou love me W Shepherd no

Page No:

pp. 115-116

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between a Shepherd and a Shepherdesse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Come never coy it so thou art not fair

Page No:

pp. 116-118

Poem Title:

To a Coy Mistress.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Suppose the fates had made a firm decree

Page No:

pp. 118-119

Poem Title:

A Supposition

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

For merry Corfedale I hoist up my sail

Page No:

pp. 119-120

Poem Title:

A SONG. Tune, The Horns.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

On the seventh day of the eleventh Month

Page No:

pp. 121-123

Poem Title:

The Banbury Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Six women as they say o'th' weaker sect

Page No:

p. 123

Poem Title:

The Gossips Conference.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I said my Mistress was most fair

Page No:

pp. 124-125

Poem Title:

A Song to a Scotch Tune.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hang up those dull and envious fools

Page No:

pp. 125-126

Poem Title:

The Amazonian Womens Song. Tune, Then hang me Ladies at your Door.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

You that think Love can convey

Page No:

pp. 126-127

Poem Title:

A Song on his Mistress's singing

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

I can love half an hour when I'm at leisure

Page No:

pp. 127-128

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I will go to my love where he lies in the deep

Page No:

p. 128

Poem Title:

On A Gentleman in a late Ingagement against the Turk was slain and thrown over-board, and she since madd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say Puritan if't come to pass

Page No:

pp. 129-131

Poem Title:

And first the Puritan, in a Dialogue between a Scholar and him.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What heat of learning kindled your desire

Page No:

pp. 129 [145-147]

Poem Title:

On the burning of the Grammar School at Oxford, the last fourteen lines being lately added.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

T. R.

First Line:

Attend you Sisters every one

Page No:

pp. 132-136

Poem Title:

On a Fire, at Jack of all Trades house in Oxford, he being a Precisian.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Wife prethee come nigh me

Page No:

pp. 133 [149] - 136 [152]

Poem Title:

The old scoldng wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hang sorrow cast away care

Page No:

pp. 136-137

Poem Title:

A Song call'd a Cup of Sack.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As Willy once assay'd

Page No:

pp. 136 [152]

Poem Title:

154 A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Robert Markham

First Line:

Prethee friend leave off thy thinking

Page No:

pp. 137-138

Poem Title:

A Song call'd the Cup of Claret.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I wish no mor thou should'st love me

Page No:

pp. 138-139

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Out upon it I have loved

Page No:

pp. 139-140

Poem Title:

A Song with the Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

A Stranger coming to the Town

Page No:

pp. 140-141 [156-157]

Poem Title:

The Frenchmans Arms and Harms.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say but did you love so long

Page No:

p. 140

Poem Title:

The Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Toby Matthews

First Line:

I've heard sundry men oft-times dispute

Page No:

pp. 141-144 [157-160]

Poem Title:

The Description of Tiburn.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O no no no I tell thee no

Page No:

pp. 141-142

Poem Title:

The sad parting, a Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To hunt the Fox is an old sport

Page No:

pp. 142-144

Poem Title:

The Hunting of the Fox, a Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Slumbring as I lay one night in my bed

Page No:

p. 144

Poem Title:

The Maidens Dream.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fair Madam thee whose everything

Page No:

pp. 147- 133[149]

Poem Title:

To his beautiful Mistress, the last twelve lines lately added.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The King and the Court

Page No:

pp. 154-155

Poem Title:

The Oxford Scholars going to see the King at Woodstock. Tune, The Horns.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A Greedy minded griping Clerk

Page No:

p. 140 [156]

Poem Title:

A rooking Usurer Cheated.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A weaver being jealous of his wife like many

Page No:

pp. 161-163

Poem Title:

On the Weaver and his Wife.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My Lady and her Maid

Page No:

pp. 163-164

Poem Title:

A Song call'd she went to bed in the dark.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You Courtiers scorn us Country Clowns

Page No:

pp. 164-165

Poem Title:

A Contest between the Court and Country.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Shew me those flames you brag of you that be

Page No:

pp. 165-168

Poem Title:

On a great Frost 1634.

Attribution:

by Mr. Cartwright of Christ-Church.

Attributed To:

William Cartwright

First Line:

What must our eyes melt too water oppress

Page No:

pp. 168-170

Poem Title:

On the dissolution of the Great Frost by Dr. Diggs.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Dudley Digges

First Line:

Can Christendom's great Champion sink away

Page No:

pp. 170-172

Poem Title:

On King James's Death.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed