INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

An old, old widow, Greedy needs would wed, [383].

Bad are all surfeits; but physicians call, [403].
Bar close as you can, and bolt fast too your door, [380].
Batt he gets children, not for love to rear 'em, [379].
Bice laughs, when no man speaks; and doth protest, [399].
Blanch swears her husband's lovely; when a scald, [376].
Blisse, last night drunk, did kiss his mother's knee, [404].
Boreman takes toll, cheats, flatters, lies! yet Boreman, [406].
Broomsted a lameness got by cold and beer, [392].
Brown bread Tom Pennie eats, and must of right, [406].
Buggins is drunk all night, all day he sleeps, [406].
Bungy does fast; looks pale; puts sackcloth on, [382].
Burr is a smell-feast, and a man alone, [404].

Center is known weak sighted, and he sells, [386].
Cob clouts his shoes, and as the story tells, [396].
Cock calls his wife his hen; when cock goes to 't, [395].
Comely acts well; and when he speaks his part, [399].
Craw cracks in sirrop; and does stinking say, [388].
Crooked you are, but that dislikes not me, [381].
Cuffe comes to church much; but he keeps his bed, [377].
Curse not the mice, no grist of thine they eat, [384].

Dunridge his issue hath; but is not styl'd, [392].
Doll, she so soon began the wanton trade, [385].

E'en all religious courses to be rich, [399].
Eeles winds and turns, and cheats and steals; yet Eeles, [386].

Feacie, some say, doth wash her clothes i' th' lie, [390].
Fie, quoth my lady, what a stink is here, [395].
First, Jolly's wife is lame; then next loose-hip'd, [378].
Flood, if he has for him and his a bit, [409].
Fone says, those mighty whiskers he does wear, [377].
For ropes of pearl, first Madam Ursly shows, [397].
For second course, last night a custard came, [378].
For thirty years Tubbs has been proud and poor, [405].
Franck ne'er wore silk she swears; but I reply, [394].
Franck would go scour her teeth; and setting to 't, [398].

Give me a reason why men call, [401].
Goes the world now, it will with thee go hard, [376].
Glasco had none, but now some teeth has got, [377].
Glass, out of deep, and out of desp'rate want, [386].
Groynes, for his fleshly burglary of late, [381].
Grubs loves his wife and children, while that they, [407].
Grudgings turns bread to stones, when to the poor, [395].
Gryll eats, but ne'er says grace: to speak the truth, [378].
Gubbs calls his children kitlings: and would bound, [380].
Guess cuts his shoes, and limping, goes about, [381].

Hanch, since he lately did inter his wife, [402].
Hog has a place i' th' kitchen, and his share, [407].
Horne sells to others teeth; but has not one, [394].
How could Luke Smeaton wear a shoe or boot, [398].
Huncks has no money, he does swear or say, [390].

I abhor the slimy kiss, [402].
I dream't this mortal part of mine, [375].
If felt and heard, unseen, thou dost me please, [408].
If thou dislik'st the piece thou light'st on first, [375].
If wounds in clothes, Cuts calls his rags, 'tis clear, [385].
I have seen many maidens to have hair, [393].
In Den'shire Kersey Lusk when he was dead, [409].
In's Tusc'lans, Tully doth confess, [409].
Is Zelot pure? he is: yet, see he wears, [397].

Jone is a wench that's painted, [396].
Joan would go tell her hairs; and well she might, [392].
Jolly and Jilly bite and scratch all day, [387].

Kissing and bussing differ both in this, [391].

Last night thou didst invite me home to eat, [388].
Letcher was carted first about the streets, [392].
Linnet plays rarely on the lute, we know, [385].
Long locks of late our zealot Peason wears, [402].
Leech boasts he has a pill, that can alone, [383].
Luggs, by the condemnation of the bench, [378].
Lulls swears he is all heart; but you'll suppose, [403].
Lungs, as some say, ne'er sets him down to eat, [396].
Lupes for the outside of his suit has paid, [405].

Maggot frequents those houses of good cheer, [391].
Mease brags of pullets which he eats; but Mease, [384].
Meg yesterday was troubled with a pose, [404].
Money thou ow'st me; prethee fix a day, [380].
Moon is a usurer, whose gain, [384].
Much-more provides and hoards up like an ant, [379].
Mudge every morning to the postern comes, [405].

Nis he makes verses; but the lines he writes, [403].
No question but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry, [407].
Now Patrick with his footmanship has done, [387].

Of flanks and chines of beef doth Gorrell boast, [380].
Of four teeth only Bridget was possest, [387].
Of pushes Spalt has such a knotty race, [394].
Old Parson Beanes hunts six days of the week, [389].
Old Widow Prouse, to do her neighbours evil, [400].
Old Widow Shopter, whensoe'er she cries, [408].
Once on a Lord Mayor's day, in Cheapside, when, [392].
One silver spoon shines in the house of Croot, [408].

Pagget, a schoolboy, got a sword, and then, [378].
Parrat protests, 'tis he, and only he, [401].
Paske, though his debt be one upon the day, [384].
Paul's hands do give; what give they, bread or meat, [398].
Peapes, he does strut, and pick his teeth, as if, [401].
Pievish doth boast that he's the very first, [387].
Prickles is waspish, and puts forth his sting, [404].
Prigg, when he comes to houses oft doth use, [384].
Prig now drinks water, who before drank beer, [379].
Putrefaction is the end, [388].

Ralph pares his nails, his warts, his corns, and Ralph, [404].
Rasp plays at nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets, [386].
Reape's eyes so raw are that, it seems, the flies, [402].
Rook he sells feathers, yet he still doth cry, [389].
Root's had no money; yet he went o' the score, [388].
Rump is a turn-broach, yet he seldom can, [408].
Rush saves his shoes in wet and snowy weather, [409].

Science puffs up, says Gut, when either pease, [407].
Scobble for whoredom whips his wife and cries, [377].
Seal'd up with night-gum Loach, each morning lies, [400].
Shark when he goes to any public feast, [382].
Shift now has cast his clothes: got all things new, [385].
Sibb, when she saw her face how hard it was, [398].
Since Gander did his pretty youngling wed, [396].
Since Jack and Jill both wicked be, [389].
Skinns, he dined well to-day; how do you think, [386].
Skoles stinks so deadly, that his breeches loath, [396].
Skrew lives by shifts; yet swears by no small oaths, [385].
Skurf by his nine-bones swears, and well he may, [390].
Slouch he packs up, and goes to several fairs, [399].
Snare, ten i' th' hundred calls his wife; and why? [395].
Sneape has a face so brittle that it breaks, [383].
Spenke has a strong breath, yet short prayers saith, [403].
Spokes, when he sees a roasted pig, he swears, [405].
Spunge makes his boasts that he's the only man, [389].
Spur jingles now, and swears by no mean oaths, [408].
Strutt, once a foreman of a shop we knew, [378].
Sudds launders bands in piss, and starches them, [381].

Tap, better known than trusted as we hear, [401].
Teage has told lies so long that when Teage tells, [403].
That was the proverb. Let my mistress be, [383].
The eggs of pheasants wry-nosed Tooly sells, [393].
The staff is now greas'd, [410].
This lady's short, that mistress she is tall, [389].
To cleanse his eyes, Tom Brock makes much ado, [382].
To loose the button is no less, [398].
To paint the fiend, Pink would the devil see, [381].
Thou writes in prose how sweet all virgins be, [400].
Tom Blinks his nose is full of weals, and these, [401].
Tom shifts the trenchers; yet he never can, [399].
Trigg, having turn'd his suit, he struts in state, [397].
Truggin a footman was; but now, grown lame, [403].

Umber was painting of a lion fierce, [393].
Unto Pastillus rank Gorgonius came, [407].
Up with the quintell, that the rout, [406].
Urles had the gout so, that he could not stand, [394].

Vinegar is no other, I define, [405].

We read how Faunus, he the shepherds' god, [406].
Were there not a matter known, [388].
What are our patches, tatters, rags, and rents, [405].
What is the reason Coone so dully smells, [394].
What made that mirth last night, the neighbours say, [395].
When Jill complains to Jack for want of meat, [391].
When others gain much by the present cast, [385].
When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use, [409].
Wherever Nodes does in the summer come, [400].
Who to the north, or south, doth set, [388].
Who with thy leaves shall wipe, at need, [375].
Why walks Nick Flimsey like a malcontent! [387].
Wither'd with years, bed-rid Mamma lies, [380].
With paste of almonds, Syb her hands doth scour, [393].

Y'ave laughed enough, sweet, vary now your text, [382].
You say, you love me; that I thus must prove, [383].
You say you're young; but when your teeth are told, [390].
You say you'll kiss me, and I thank you for it, [394].

Transcriber's Endnotes

Numeration Errors in the Hesperides:

Without an obvious solution to a discrepancy the numbers remain as originally printed, however the following alterations have been made to ensure any details in the [NOTES] section apply to the relevant poem.

Page [290]. Note to 923. "924" changed to 923.
- "923. Revenge. Tacitus, Hist. iv."

Page [295]. Note to 967. "726" changed to 724.
- "967. Upon his spaniel, Tracy. Cp. supra, 724."

Page [297]. Note to 1035. "664" changed to 662.
- "... writing to Endymion Porter (662), and earlier ..."

Page [298]. Note to 1045. "406" changed to 405.
- "... Herrick addressed the poem (405) ..."

Typographical Errors:

Page [177]. 33. AN ODE OF THE BIRTH.... "disposses" corrected to dispossess.
- "And as we dispossess Thee ..."

Page [318]. Appendix I. "arious" corrected to various.
- "... all the various articles spread throughout ..."

Page [379]. 199. UPON LUGG. "LUGG" corrected to LUGGS.
- "199. UPON LUGGS."

Page [382]. 277. LAUGH AND DIE DOWN. "DIE" corrected to LIE.
- "277. LAUGH AND LIE DOWN."