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

by Unknown

Better than a pound of Sorrow.

N. D.

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Ballads, Songs, and Catches in this Book.

		Original:	Our
		page.	vols,	page
1.	The Exaltation of a Pot of Good Ale,	1	iii.	[113]
2.	The Song of Cook-Lawrel, by Ben Johnson	9	ii.	214
3.	The Ballad of The Black-smith,	11		225
4.	The Ballad of Old Courtier and the New	14	iii.	[125]
5.	The Ballad of the Wedding of Arthur of Bradley,	16	ii.	312
6.	The Ballad of the Green Gown,	20	i.	Ap. 54
7.	The Ballad of the Gelding of the Devil,	21	ii.	200
8.	The Ballad of Sir Eglamore,	25		257
9.	The Ballad of St. George for England,	26	iii.	[129]
10.	The Ballad of Blew Cap for me,	29		[133]
11.	The Ballad of the Several Caps,	31		[135]
12.	The Ballad of the Noses,	33	ii.	143
13.	The Song of the Hot-headed Zealot,	35		234
14.	The Song of the Schismatick Rotundos,	37	iii.	[139]
15.	A Glee in praise of Wine [Let souldiers],	39	ii.	218
16.	Sir John Sucklin’s Ballad of the Ld. L. Wedding.	40		101
17.	The Combat of Cocks,	44		242
18.	The Welchman’s prayse of Wales,	47	iii.	[141]
19.	The Cavaleer’s Complaint [and Answer],	49	ii.	52
20.	Three several Songs in praise of Sack
	[: Old Poets Hipocrin, &c.	52	iii.	[143]
	Hang the Presbyter’s Gill,	53		[144]
	’Tis Wine that inspires,	54		[145]
	[A Glee to the Vicar,	W.D. Int.
	[On a Cold Chyne of Beef,	55	iii.	[146]
	[A Song of Cupid Scorned,	56		[147]
21.	On the Vertue of Sack, by Dr. Hen. Edwards	57	ii.	293
22.	The Medly of Nations, to several tunes,	59		127
23.	The Ballad of the Brewer,	62		221
24.	A Collection of 40 [34] more Merry Catches and Songs.	65-76	iii.	[149]
	[Of these 34, ten are given in Merry Drollery, Complete, on pages 296, 304, 308, 232, 337, 300, 280, 318, 348, and 341. The others are added in this volume		iii.	[52]

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