Wit and Drollery [R209633]

DMI number:

1778

Publication Date:

1656

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R209633

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99868498

Shelfmark:

EEBO

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse, Collection of comic verse, and Collection of songs

Format:

Octavo

Content/Publication

First Line:

No I protest not that I wish the gaines

Page No:

pp. 1-3

Poem Title:

The Preface to that most elaborate piece of Poetry entitled Penelope Ulysses.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

James Smith

First Line:

O all you clapstick spirits of the Sphears

Page No:

pp. 3-5

Poem Title:

Here endeth the Preface, and now beginneth the Book.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

James Smith

First Line:

Of all the trades that ever I see

Page No:

pp. 6-10

Poem Title:

SONG

Attribution:

Attributed To:

James Smith

First Line:

Beat on proud Billowes Boreas Blow

Page No:

pp. 11-14

Poem Title:

Loyalty confin'd.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Roger L'Estrange

First Line:

Is this your Loadstone then that must attract

Page No:

pp. 15-17

Poem Title:

On Ben Johnsons Play called Magnetick Lady.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Gill

First Line:

Shall the prosperity of a pardon still

Page No:

pp. 17-18

Poem Title:

Ben: Johnson's Answer to Dr. Gill

Attribution:

Ben: Johnson

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

It cannot move thy friend firm Ben that he

Page No:

p. 18

Poem Title:

Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in answer to an Abusive Copie, crying down his Magnetick Lady.

Attribution:

Mr. Townsend

Attributed To:

Zouch Townley

First Line:

Here lies black Luce that Pick-hatch drab

Page No:

p. 19

Poem Title:

On Luce Morgan a Common-Whore. EPIGRAM.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In this cold Monument lyes one

Page No:

pp. 20-21

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a Whore.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh love whose power and might

Page No:

pp. 21-23

Poem Title:

A mock-song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your Letter I receiv'd

Page No:

pp. 24-25

Poem Title:

The Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I have the fairest non-perel

Page No:

pp. 26-29

Poem Title:

In praise of his Mistresses beauty.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When young folkes first begin to love

Page No:

pp. 29-30

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We sea men are the honest boys

Page No:

pp. 31-32

Poem Title:

A Song of the Sea-Men and Land-soldiers.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My dear and onely love take heed

Page No:

pp. 33-34

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

James Graham

First Line:

When Phoebus address'd his course to the West

Page No:

pp. 35-36

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I Courted a Lasse my folly was the cause of her disdaining

Page No:

p. 37

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If you'l but hear me I shall tell

Page No:

pp. 37-39

Poem Title:

Upon my Lord Mayors day, being put off by reason of the Plague.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Out upon it I have lov'd three whole dayes together

Page No:

p. 40

Poem Title:

A Song by Sir John Suckling.

Attribution:

Sir John Suckling.

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

Say but did you love so long in sooth I needs must blame ye

Page No:

p. 41

Poem Title:

The Answer

Attribution:

by the same Author.

Attributed To:

Sir Toby Matthews

First Line:

Jove lay thy Majesty aside and wonder

Page No:

p. 42

Poem Title:

Upon an old Scold.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Art thou the Phoenix I could rather swear

Page No:

p. 43

Poem Title:

On a deformed old Woman (whorish) whom one was pleased to call the Phoenix.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'le tell thee Jack thou'st given the King

Page No:

pp. 44-45

Poem Title:

Upon Sir John Suckling.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'le tell thee foole who e're thou be

Page No:

pp. 46-47

Poem Title:

Sir John Suckling's Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

My haire is grown rude and Gally's bridge broke down

Page No:

pp. 48-49

Poem Title:

A Gentleman on his being trim'd by a Cobler.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Jack Wiseman brags his very name

Page No:

p. 49

Poem Title:

On Jack Wiseman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Love blind who saies so tis a lye

Page No:

p. 50

Poem Title:

Love blinde, a Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'Th' non-age of the Morn we got up

Page No:

pp. 51-53

Poem Title:

The Anglers Song.

Attribution:

J.N.

Attributed To:

J. N.

First Line:

She lay all naked in her bed

Page No:

pp. 54-57

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Full forty times over I have strived to win

Page No:

pp. 58-60

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Rich Bawdybrowne

First Line:

Wee'l go no more to Tunbridge wells

Page No:

pp. 60-62

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A Story strange I will unfold

Page No:

pp. 63-65

Poem Title:

Of banishing the Ladies out of Town.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What heat of learning kindled you desire

Page No:

pp. 65-66 [105-106]

Poem Title:

Upon the burning of a Petty School... T.R.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

T. R.

First Line:

Tis not your vertues make you to refuse me

Page No:

p. 66

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Helpe helpe you undertakers all

Page No:

pp. 66-68 [106-108]

Poem Title:

Upon the fall of Wisbech Bridge.

Attribution:

T.R.

Attributed To:

T. R.

First Line:

Lay that sulley Garland by thee

Page No:

pp. 67-68

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Cast that Ivy Garland from thee

Page No:

pp. 68-69

Poem Title:

An Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lament Lament you Scholars all

Page No:

pp. 68-70 [108-110]

Poem Title:

Upon the fall of the Miter in Cambridge.

Attribution:

T.R.

Attributed To:

Thomas Randolph

First Line:

Go you tame Gallants you that have the name

Page No:

pp. 70-75 [110-115]

Poem Title:

A match at Cock-fighting.

Attribution:

T.R.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No mans love fiery passions can approve

Page No:

pp. 70-71

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir Robert Ayton

First Line:

Deare Castodoris let me rise

Page No:

pp. 72-73

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Beauty and love once fell at odds

Page No:

pp. 74-75

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When ise came first to London town

Page No:

pp. 75-78

Poem Title:

A North Countrey Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Lo precious Rules are here made comon

Page No:

pp. 76-91 [116-131]

Poem Title:

On the praise of fat Men.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

We ask not Ben what's the design did raise

Page No:

pp. 79-80

Poem Title:

Verses written over the Chair of Ben: Johnson, now remaining at Robert Wilsons, at the signe of Johnson's head in the Strand.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now Town-wit saith to witty friend

Page No:

pp. 80-84[86]

Poem Title:

The long Vacation.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pox take Mistris I'le be gone

Page No:

pp. 84[86]-88

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I Had a Love and she was chast

Page No:

p. 89 [91]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I pray thee drunkard get thee gone

Page No:

pp. 89-89[91]

Poem Title:

The Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A Priest there was of Wellis

Page No:

p. 92

Poem Title:

Upon a Priest that lyes buried in Wells.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Here once my Princesse when we first did meet

Page No:

pp. 92-93 [132-133]

Poem Title:

On the print of a Ladies foot, cut on the Leades of Kings Colledge Chappel, where before she had fallen.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

There was an old Lad rode on an old pad

Page No:

pp. 92 [94]-96

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When Vertue was a Countrey maid

Page No:

p. 92

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Do I want torture then that I

Page No:

pp. 93-95 [133-135]

Poem Title:

To a Lady commanding him to write a defiance to Love.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Right Worshipfull Frank

Page No:

p. 93

Poem Title:

A Scholers answer to one that sent to borrow his Horse.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Madam pardon me whilst I

Page No:

pp. 95-96 [135-136]

Poem Title:

To a Lady on a fall, in which she had almost discovered more then all the World besides could shew.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The weapon Salve as some they say have found

Page No:

p. 97 [137]

Poem Title:

On a knife that cut a Ladies finger.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

My Masters and friends and good people draw near

Page No:

pp. 97-99

Poem Title:

A Song. To the Tune of Packingtons Pound.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Bring me Raviliac who does defie

Page No:

pp. 98-99 [138-139]

Poem Title:

A Description of the miseries of a moneylesse Pocket.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In Cheapside famous for Gold and Plate

Page No:

pp. 100-102

Poem Title:

To the Tune of I waile in woe, I plunge in paine: OR, LABANDOLA shot.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How is't nine Taylors make a man up when

Page No:

pp. 100-102 [140-142]

Poem Title:

On a London Talyor who spoiled a Commencement Gowne in the making.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Richard Williams

First Line:

Let others sing of heads and some of cups

Page No:

pp. 102-103 [142-143]

Poem Title:

On a Bile.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Herry Vintner

First Line:

Ladyes here I doe present you

Page No:

pp. 103-104

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why faire vow-breaker hath thy sin thought fit

Page No:

pp. 103-107 [143-147]

Poem Title:

To a Gentlewoman from her formerly betrothed, but diserted servant, he being invted to the celebration of her Nuptials.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

J. Vaughan

First Line:

Ladies whose marble hearts despise

Page No:

pp. 107-108 [147-148]

Poem Title:

Cupides Holyday.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What is't that fans my fancies thus

Page No:

pp. 108-110 [148-150]

Poem Title:

To his Whore who askt money of him.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ile go no more to the New Exchange

Page No:

pp. 110-112 [150-152]

Poem Title:

On the Souldiers walking in the New Exchange to affront the Ladies.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why should we not laugh and be jolly

Page No:

pp. 112-114 [152-154]

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Bright Cynthia scornes alone to weare hornes

Page No:

pp. 114-116 [154-156]

Poem Title:

The hornes a Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A Beggar got a baliff

Page No:

pp. 116-118 [156-158]

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hate me deare soule and say no more you love

Page No:

p. 119 [159]

Poem Title:

To his Mistrisse denying him to lie with her.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hold hoopes and hinges burst not I beseech

Page No:

pp. 120-122 [160-162]

Poem Title:

Upon a Christmas Dinner in a Prison.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I Prethee sweet heart grant me my desire

Page No:

pp. 123-124 [163-164]

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Thou dost deny me cause thou art a wife

Page No:

p. 125 [165]

Poem Title:

Solicitation to a married Woman.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From forth the Elizian feilds

Page No:

pp. 126-127 [166-167]

Poem Title:

Tom of Bedlam.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir Egley More that Valiant Knight

Page No:

pp. 128-130 [168-170]

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Samuel Rowlands

First Line:

As Cupid took his bow and bolt

Page No:

pp. 131-132 [171-172]

Poem Title:

Cupid and the Clown.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sir Francis Sir Francis Sir Francis his son

Page No:

p. 133 [173]

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O Thou that sleepst like Pig in straw

Page No:

p. 134 [174]

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

None but my selfe my heart doe keep

Page No:

p. 135 [175]

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Andrew and Maudlin Rebecca and Will

Page No:

pp. 136-138 [176-178]

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas D'Urfey

First Line:

Dame Learning of late is fled the Land

Page No:

pp. 138-142 [178-182]

Poem Title:

The Reform'd University.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In a Melancholy study

Page No:

pp. 143-146 [183-186]

Poem Title:

The shiftlesse Student.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Robert Wild

First Line:

Now Scholers looke unto it

Page No:

pp. 146-151 [186-191]

Poem Title:

The Townsmen's Petition to the King that Cambridge might be made a City.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The up-land people are full of thoughts

Page No:

pp. 152-153 [192-193]

Poem Title:

The draining of the Fennes.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh that my Lungs could bleat like butter'd pease

Page No:

pp. 153-154 [193-194]

Poem Title:

Nonsense.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whenas the Chilehe Rocko blowes

Page No:

pp. 154-155 [194-195]

Poem Title:

In praise of Ale.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You that do sitting stand to see our Play

Page No:

pp. 155-156 [195-196]

Poem Title:

A Bull Prologue.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

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First Line:

There is a Bush fit for the once

Page No:

p. 155 [195]

Poem Title:

A Ridle of a Goosbery.

Attribution:

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Not attributed

First Line:

He that wrot this Play ne'er made Play before

Page No:

p. 156

Poem Title:

[196] An Epilogue upon the honest Lawyer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Be blithe Fopdodles for my Author knows

Page No:

p. 156 [196]

Poem Title:

Another Prologue.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Bucksteed

First Line:

If she be fair I fear the rest

Page No:

p. 157 [197]

Poem Title:

A Resolution not to Marry.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Who ever loves if he do not propose

Page No:

pp. 157-160 [197-200]

Poem Title:

Loves Progresse... J.D.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

John Donne