CONTENTS.

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DEDICATION[v]
PRELUDE[ix]
INTRODUCTION TO “CHOICE DROLLERY, 1656”[xi]
§ 1. HOW CHOICE DROLLERY WAS INHIBITED[xi]
2. THE TWO COURTS IN 1656[xix]
3. SONGS OF LOVE AND WAR[xxvi]
4. CONCLUSION: THE PASTORALS[xxxiii]
ORIGINAL “ADDRESS TO THE READER,” 1856
“CHOYCE DROLLERY,” 1656[1]
TABLE OF FIRST LINES TO DITTO[101]
INTRODUCTION TO “ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY,” 1661
§ 1. REPRINT OF “ANTIDOTE”[105]
2. INGREDIENTS OF “AN ANTIDOTE”[108]
ORIGINAL ADDRESS “TO THE READER,” 1661[111]
” CONTENTS (ENLARGED)[112]
“ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY,” 1661[113]
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT TO DITTO: § 1. ON THE “AUTHOR” OF THE ANTIDOTE. 2. ARTHUR O’BRADLEY[161]
“WESTMINSTER DROLLERIES,” EDITION 1674: EXTRA SONGS[177]
“MERRY DROLLERY,” 1661:
PART 1. EXTRA SONGS[195]
” 2. DITTO[233]
APPENDIX OF NOTES, &c., ARRANGED IN FOUR PARTS:
1. “CHOICE DROLLERY”[259]
2. “ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY”[305]
3. “WESTMINSTER DROLLERY,” 1671-4[333]
4. § 1. “MERRY DROLLERY,” 1661[345]
2. ADDITIONAL NOTES TO “M. D.,” 1670[371]
3. SESSIONS OF POETS[405]
4. TABLES OF FIRST LINES[411]
FINALE[423]

PRELUDE.

Not dim and shadowy, like a world of dreams,

We summon back the past Cromwellian time,