Sportive Wit [R36677]

DMI number:

1766

Publication Date:

1656

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R36677

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:15869376

Shelfmark:

EEBO

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

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

Format:

Octavo

Content/Publication

First Line:

As I was walking I cannot tell how

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Poem Title:

NARCISSUS. A Song.

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Come Sweet and draw the Curtain round

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Poem Title:

A SONG.

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Heark my Flora Love doth call us

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Poem Title:

Cartwright's Song of Dalliance Never printed before.

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It chanc'd not long ago as I was walking

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The Bulls feather.

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Ladies all glad ye here comes Doctor Paddy

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Poem Title:

Close-Stool and Chamber-pot chuse out a Doctor. A Lampoun.

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The Black Jack the merry Black Jack

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Poem Title:

A CATCH.

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Will you hear the mode of France

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Poem Title:

The Dunners Dance.

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Love I must tell thee I'll no longer be

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Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Now all my friends are dead and gone

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pp. 1-5

Poem Title:

The Maids Portion.

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First Line:

To you grave Speakers and the rest beside

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pp. 1-6

Poem Title:

A SPEECH.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alderman Wooleston

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If mourn I may in time so glad

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pp. 6-8

Poem Title:

Wat's A la mort.

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When I do smoak my nose with a pipe of Tobacco after a feast

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pp. 6-8

Poem Title:

On Tobacco.

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First Line:

Here's a Health to good Queen Mary

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pp. 9-10

Poem Title:

A Lampoun.

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First Line:

My Mistress is a Shittle-cock

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p. 9

Poem Title:

The Game at Shittle-cock.

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Why are women said their husbands to deceive

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p. 9

Poem Title:

A Question.

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The beard is thick or thin

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pp. 10-13

Poem Title:

On the Beard.

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One came to Court a wench she was precise

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pp. 11-12

Poem Title:

On a precise Woman.

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When I go to revel in the night

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pp. 12-14

Poem Title:

The Drunkard's Song.

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First Line:

If any man doth want a house

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pp. 14-15

Poem Title:

A Song, on a Tenement.

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First Line:

I am that lofty Swaine

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pp. 15-33[17]

Poem Title:

[untitled] [printed as carrying on from previous verse]

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First Line:

Cloris since thou art fled away

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pp. 15-16

Poem Title:

A Shepherd fallen in love. A Pastoral SONG: With the Answer.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry Hughes

First Line:

Cloris since thou art gone astray

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pp. 16-17

Poem Title:

The Answer.

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First Line:

Heav'ns bless King James our joy

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pp. 18-22

Poem Title:

A Lampoun.

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First Line:

Cupid Cupid makes men stupid

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pp. 22-23

Poem Title:

A SONG

Attribution:

Ralph Sleigh

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Ralph Sleigh

First Line:

Come come come do you mask do you mum

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pp. 23-40[24]

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

The Wit hath long beholding been

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pp. 23-27

Poem Title:

The Song of the Caps.

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Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

All haile to the dayes

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p. 41 [25]

Poem Title:

A SONG.

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First Line:

O that I durst but thred your Needle Lady

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p. 26

Poem Title:

The threading of the Needle.

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First Line:

Songs of Sonnets and rusticall Roundelaye

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pp. 27-31

Poem Title:

The hunting of the Gods. To the Tune of Room for Cuckolds.

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First Line:

When mortal beauties sheath their radiant light

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p. 27

Poem Title:

A Fancie.

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First Line:

Tis not my Ladies face that makes me love her

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pp. 28-29

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

I Prethee sweet Rose pull up thy cloaths

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pp. 30-31

Poem Title:

A Medly.

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First Line:

Thumble's wife is fair

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pp. 32-33

Poem Title:

A Lampoun.

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First Line:

I oft have heard of Lydford-Law

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pp. 33[17]-19

Poem Title:

Lydford Law. A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Browne

First Line:

Sleep old man let silence charm thee

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pp. 33-34

Poem Title:

A Charm.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

First Line:

Come buy my new Almanacks every one

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pp. 35-36

Poem Title:

The Mercury.

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First Line:

The best of Poets write of Hogs

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pp. 35-39

Poem Title:

Bow Goose.

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First Line:

O my dearest I shall grieve thee

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pp. 36[20]-22

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

With face and fashion to be known

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pp. 37-38

Poem Title:

The Tub-Preacher.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Blind Fortune if thou want'st a Guide

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pp. 39-40

Poem Title:

The Impartial Doom.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Martin Harvey

First Line:

Perswade me not I vow Ile love no more

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pp. 40-41

Poem Title:

The libertine

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Nay pish nay phew nay faith and will you

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pp. 41-42

Poem Title:

A Maidens Deniall.

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First Line:

What's a Cuckold learn of me

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p. 41

Poem Title:

The Cuckold's Pedigree.

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First Line:

Thou who the native stink t'expel

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pp. 42-43

Poem Title:

The Curse.

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First Line:

What need we take care for Platonick rules

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pp. 43-44

Poem Title:

The Companion.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Tobacco's a Musician

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pp. 44-45

Poem Title:

Encomium of Tobacco.

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First Line:

Of all the rare juices

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pp. 45-46

Poem Title:

On CANARY.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

Stay shut the gate

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pp. 46-47

Poem Title:

A SONG.

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First Line:

You that in love do mean to sport

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p. 47

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Prethee friend leave off thy fooling

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pp. 48-49

Poem Title:

Against Demur in Marraige.

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First Line:

When Py-crust first began to reign

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p. 48

Poem Title:

A Fancy.

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First Line:

Since I must needs into thy School return

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p. 48

Poem Title:

A Lady's Prayer to Cupid.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Thomas Carew

First Line:

Nay prethee don't fly me

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pp. 48[32]-34

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

There was a Country-lass

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pp. 49-50

Poem Title:

A SONG.

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First Line:

Come noble Nymphs and do not hide

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p. 49

Poem Title:

An ODE.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

May not an old age yet sing an April song

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p. 50

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Why art thou coy my Leda art not mine

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pp. 50-51

Poem Title:

The Bridall Night.

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Attributed To:

Thomas Jordan

First Line:

He is a fond Lover that doateth on scorn

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pp. 51-52

Poem Title:

An Answer to Full Fourty times over.

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First Line:

As Colin went forth his sheep to unfold

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pp. 52-53

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

I met with Joan of Kent

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p. 52

Poem Title:

A Catch.

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First Line:

Master if I may do you no wrong

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pp. 53-57.

Poem Title:

The Cloak's ANSWER to the Poet's FAREWEL

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First Line:

Yesterday I heard an old woman say

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pp. 54-55

Poem Title:

On an Old Woman.

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I pray Doctor Argent a note in your margent

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pp. 55-58

Poem Title:

A Colledge of Doctors.

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First Line:

The Courtier scorns us Country-Clowns

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pp. 58-59

Poem Title:

The Clowns Song.

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First Line:

Fine young folly though you were

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pp. 58-59

Poem Title:

A SONG.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Habington

First Line:

A merry jest I will you tell

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pp. 59-62

Poem Title:

The Gelding of the Devil.

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First Line:

Old Poets Hypocrene admire

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p. 60

Poem Title:

On a Pinte-pot.

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First Line:

And is not the Queen of Drabs

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pp. 61-63

Poem Title:

On his deformed Mistress.

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First Line:

Undone undone you Lawyers are

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pp. 63-64

Poem Title:

Charing Cross.

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First Line:

Long ere the morn

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pp. 64-65

Poem Title:

The Hunters Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

William Basse

First Line:

My dearly loved friend how oft have we

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pp. 66-72

Poem Title:

To his FRIEND; A Censure of the Poets.

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Attributed To:

Michael Drayton

First Line:

Prethee die and set me free

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pp. 73-74

Poem Title:

Reasons to Hate.

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Attributed To:

Sir John Denham

First Line:

When Arthur first in Court began

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p. 75

Poem Title:

King Arthur.

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First Line:

Set forty thousand on a row

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p. 76

Poem Title:

Constant Affection.

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First Line:

My Theodora Can those eyes

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p. 77

Poem Title:

Theodora.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Alexander Brome

First Line:

A Riddle a Riddle me neighbor John

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pp. 78-79

Poem Title:

A Song made when King Charles was at Plymouth.

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Attributed To:

William Strode

First Line:

Stay here fond youth and ask no more be wise

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pp. 80-81

Poem Title:

Against Fruition

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Sir John Suckling

First Line:

All you that desire to merry be

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pp. 81-87

Poem Title:

A SONG.

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First Line:

The fourteenth of September

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pp. 88-89

Poem Title:

A SONG.

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First Line:

Here lyes William de Valence

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pp. 90-102

Poem Title:

[untitled] [prose introduction]

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First Line:

A silly poor Sheepherd

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pp. 102-103

Poem Title:

A Pastorall Song.

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First Line:

I swo'd my Seed

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pp. 104-105

Poem Title:

A Medly.

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First Line:

Come all you Maids that list to marry

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pp. 105-107

Poem Title:

A Medly.

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First Line:

There was a Lady in this Land

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pp. 108-111

Poem Title:

The Joviall Tinker.

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Tom and Will were shepherds swaines

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pp. 112-115

Poem Title:

The admirable Song of Tom and Will.

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First Line:

Cloris forbear a while do not ore-joy me

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p. 115

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Underneath the Castle wall

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pp. 116-117

Poem Title:

A Song.

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Nor drunken nor sober but neighbor to both

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pp. 118-119

Poem Title:

A Song in the praise of ALE.

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Daphne was Poet to the Queen

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pp. 120-124

Poem Title:

How Daphne payes his Debts.

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Willy's gone to the wood to the wood to the wood

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pp. 125-126

Poem Title:

Willy is gone to the Wood. A SONG.

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First Line:

You young men that want skill in wooing

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pp. 126-128

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Did I once say thay thou wert faire

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p. 128

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Henry Hughes

First Line:

Sure 'twas a dream how long fond man have I

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p. 129

Poem Title:

A SONG.

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First Line:

Here lies John Taylor without rime or reason

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p. 130

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on John Taylor, who was born in the City of Glocester, died in Ph?_nix Alley, in the 75. yeare of his age; you may finde him, if the worms have not devoured him, in Covent Garden Churchyard.

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Here lyes neither Constable Jutice nor Jaylor

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pp. 131

Poem Title:

Another from the University.

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Oh ho boyes soh ho boyes

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pp. 131-132

Poem Title:

A SONG.

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