Choyce Drollery

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Editor

Ebsworth, Joseph Woodfall, 1824-1908

Title

Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.

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Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Songs, English -- Texts

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60454

Release Date

October 8, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.PRELUDE.
4. 4.EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE DROLLERY: 1656. — § 1. CHOYCE DROLLERY Inhibited . — § 2.— The Two Courts, in 1656. — § 3.— Songs of Love and War. — § 4.— On the Pastorals. — Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets.
5. 5.To the READER.
6. 6.Choice DROLLERY: SONGS AND Sonnets . — The broken Heart. — Of a Woman that died for love of a Man. — On the TIME-POETS . — The Vow-breaker. — The Sympathie. — The Red Head and the White. — SONNET. — On the Flower-de-luce in Oxford . — ALDOBRANDINO, a fat Cardinal. — Jack of Lent’s Ballat. — A SONG. — Upon a House of Office over a River, set on fire by a coale of TOBACCO. — Upon the Spanish Invasion in Eighty eight. — Upon the Gun-powder Plot. — A CATCH. — A pitiful Lamentation. — A Woman with Child that desired a Son, which might prove a Preacher. — The Maid of Tottenham . — To the King on New-yeares day, 1638. — In praise of a deformed woman. — On a TINKER. — Upon his Mistris’s black Eye-browes. — To my Lady of Carnarvon , January 1. — The Western Husband-man’s Complaint in the late Wars. — The High-way man’s Song. — Against Fruition , &c. — Upon Mr. Fullers Booke, called Pisgah-sight . — On a Sheepherd that died for Love. — The Shepheards lamentation for the losse of his Love. — A Ballad on Queen Elizabeth ; to the tune of Sallengers round. — A Ballad on King James ; to the tune of When Arthur first in Court began. — Upon the death of a Chandler . — Upon the Scots being beaten at Muscleborough field. — Lipps and Eyes. — On black Eyes. — CRVELTY. — A Sonnet. — The Doctors Touchstone. — A copy of Verses of a mon[e]y Marriage. — The baseness of Whores. — A Lover disclosing his love to his Mistris . — The contented Prisoner his praise of Sack . — Of DESIRE. — Upon kinde and true Love. — Upon his Constant Mistresse. — The Ghost-Song. — Table of First Lines To the Songs and Poems in Choice Drollery , 1656. ( Now first added. )
7. 7.EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY, 1661. — § 1. Reprint of an Antidote. — § 2. Ingredients of an “Antidote.”
8. 8.To the Reader.
9. 9.Ballads, Songs, and Catches in this Book.
10. 10.Pills to Purge Melancholly. — The Ex-Ale-tation of ALE. — An Old Song of an Old Courtier and a New. — The Ballad of St. George for England. — A Ballad call’d Blew Cap for me. — The Ballad of the Caps. — A Song On the Schismatick Rotundos. — The Welshmans Song, in praise of Wales. — On a Pint of Sack . — A Song in Praise of Sack . — In the praise of WINE. — On a Cold Chyne of BEEF. — A Song of Cupid Scorn’d. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — THE ANSWER. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A CATCH. — A SONG. — A CATCH. — UPON A WELCHMAN. — A SONG. — A CATCH.
11. 11.EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT: — 1.—ON THE “AUTHOR” OF AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY , 1661. — EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT: 2.—ARTHUR O’ BRADLEY.
12. 12.ADDITIONAL SONGS FROM THE Westminster-Drollery : Edition 1674. — A Song. — A Song. — A Song. — A Song. — A Song. — Wickham Wakened , OR The Quakers Madrigall In Rime Dogrell .
13. 13.EXTRA SONGS & POEMS, IN Merry Drollery, 1661: ( Omitted from the Editions of 1670, 1691, when New Songs were substituted for them. ) — I.—IN PART FIRST. — A Puritan. — Loves Dream. — The good Old Cause. — A Song. — Maidens delight. — A Song. — Admiral Deans Funeral. — A merrie Journey to France . — Englands Woe. — Ladies Delight. — The Tyrannical Wife. — The Tinker. — The Maid a bathing. — Merry Drollery, 1661: Extra Songs in Part Second . ( Omitted in 1670 and 1691 Editions. ) — The Force of Opportunity. — Lusty Tobacco. — On the Goldsmiths-Committee. — Insatiate Desire. — The Horn exalted. — A Letany. — New England described. — The insatiate Lover. — The Louse.
14. 14.APPENDIX. Notes, Illustrations, Various Readings, and Emendations of Text. — 1.—CHOYCE DROLLERY, 1656. — Note, on The Address to the Reader , &c. — Page 1. Deare Love, let me this evening dye. — Page 4. Nor Love nor Fate dare I accuse. — Page 5. One night the great Apollo , pleased with Ben . — Page 7. “ Rounce, Robble, Hobble, he that writ so big. ” — Page 10. Come, my White-head, let our Muses. — Page 15. A Stranger coming to the town. — Page 20. List, your Nobles, and attend. — Page 31. A Story strange I will you tell. — Page 33. Oh fire, fire, fire, where? — Page 38. In Eighty Eight, ere I was born. — Page 40. And will this Wicked World , &c. — Page 44. A Maiden of the Pure Society. — Page 52. He that a Tinker , &c. — Page 55. Idol of our Sex! &c. — Page 57. Uds bodykins! Chill work no more. — Page 60. I keep my horse, I keep , &c. — Page 61. There is not halfe so warm a fire. — Page 62. Fuller of wish, than hope , &c. — Page 63. Cloris, now thou art fled away . — Page 68. I tell you all, both great and small. — Page 70. When James in Scotland first began. — Page 72. The Chandler drew near his end. — Page 73. Farre in the Forrest of Arden. — Page 78. On the twelfth day of December . — Page 80. In Celia [’s face] a question did arise. — Page 81. Blacke Eyes, in your dark Orbs doe lye. — Page 83. We read of Kings, and Gods, &c. — Page 84. What ill luck had I, Silly Maid , &c. — Page 85. I never did hold all that glisters , &c. — Page 88. No Gypsie nor no Blackamore. — Page 92. Let not Sweet Saint , &c. — Page 93. How happy’s that Prisoner. — Page 97. Fire! Fire! O how I burn, &c. — Page 98. ’Tis not how witty, nor how free. — Page 99. She’s not the fairest of her name. — Page 100. ’Tis late and cold, stir up the fire. — APPENDIX. Part 2. ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY. 1661. — Page 113 (original, p. 1). Not drunken, nor sober, &c. — Page 125 (orig. 14). With an old Song, made by, &c. — Page 20 (original). Pan leave piping, &c. — Page 129 (orig. 26). Why should we boast of Arthur , &c. — Page 133 (orig. 29). Come hither, thou merriest, &c. — Page 135 (orig. 30). The Wit hath long beholden been. — Page 139 (orig. 37). Once I a curious eye did fix. — Page 139 (orig. 47). I’s not come here to tauk of Prut . — Page 143. Old Poets Hipocrin admire. — Page 144. Hang the Presbyter’s Gill. — Page 145. ’Tis Wine that inspires. — (Page, in original, 55.) Let the bells ring. — Page 146. Bring out the [c]old Chyne. — Page 147. In Love? away! you do me wrong. — (Page 65, orig.) He that a Tinker, a Tinker &c. — Page 149 , line 8th, Now that the Spring, &c. — Page 149. You Merry Poets, old boys. — Page 150. Come, come away, to the Tavern, I say. — Page 151. There was an Old Man at Walton Cross. — Page 151. Come, let us cast dice, who shall drink. — Page 151. Never let a man take heavily, &c. — Page 152. Let’s cast away care, and merrily sing. — Page 152. Hang sorrow, and cast away care. — Page 152. My Lady and her Maid, upon a merry pin. — Page 153. An old house end. — Same p. 153. Wilt thou lend me thy Mare. — Page 154. Good Symon , how comes it, &c. — Same p. 154. Wilt thou be fatt? &c. — Page 155. Of all the birds that ever I see. — Same p. 155. This Ale, my bonny lads, &c. — Page 156. What! are we met? Come. &c. — Same p. 156. Jog on, jog on the foot path-way. — Page 157. The parcht earth drinks , &c. — Same p. 157. A Man of Wales , &c. — Page 158. Drink, drink, all you that think. — Page 159. Welcome, welcome, again to thy wits. — APPENDIX. Part 3. — § 1.—EXTRA SONGS IN THE WESTMINSTER-DROLLERY, 1674. — § 2.—ADDITIONAL NOTES To the 1671-72 Editions of WESTMINSTER-DROLLERY. — APPENDIX. Part 4. — § 1.—EXTRA SONGS IN THE MERRY DROLLERY, 1661. — § 2.—ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE MERRY DROLLERY, COMPLEAT. — § 3.—SESSIONS OF POETS. — ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. — TABLE OF FIRST LINES In “Merry Drollery,” 1661, 1670, 1691 ( Now first added. ) — First Lines of the “Antidote” Songs: Given in this Volume (and not in M. D. C. ).
15. 15.FINALE.
16. 16.Drollery Reprints.
17. 17.FOOTNOTES
18. 18.Transcriber’s Note

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