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

by Unknown

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The Phœnix (emblematical of the Restoration) is adapted from Spenser’s Works, 1611.

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TABLE OF FIRST LINES
In “Merry Drollery,” 1661, 1670, 1691
(Now first added.)

[The Songs and Poems peculiar to the first edition, 1661 (having been afterwards omitted), are here distinguished by being printed in Roman type. They are all contained in the present volume. Those that were added, in the later editions only, have no number attached to them in our first column of pages, viz. for 1661. The third edition, in 1691, was no more than a re-issue of the 1670 edition, with a fresh title-page to disguise it, in pretence of novelty ([see p. 345, ante]). The outside column refers to our Reprint of the “Drolleries;” but where the middle column is blank, as shewing the song was not repeated in 1670 and 1691, our Reprint-page belongs to the present volume. The “Reserved Pieces,” given only in Supplement, bear the letter “R” (for the extra sheet, signed R*).—Ed.]

First Lines.	[In Editions]	1661	1670	1875
A Brewer may be a Burgess	ii.	70	252	252
A fig for Care, why should we			217	217
A Fox, a Fox, up gallants		29	38	38
A Maiden of late, whose name		160	170	170
A Pox on the Jaylor, and on his			289	289
A Puritan of late		2		195
A Session was held the other day		68	72	72
A Story strange I will you tell	ii.	12	200	200
A young man of late		27		201
A young man that’s in love		34	42	42
A young man walking all alone		32		204
After so many sad mishaps		112	118	118
After the pains of a desperate Lover			171	171
Ah, ah, come see what’s		30	40	40
All in the Land of Essex		48	56	56
Am I mad, O noble Festus?	ii.	50	234	234
Amarillis told her swain			8	10
Among the Purifidian sect	ii.	103		243
Are you grown so melancholy?	ii.	101	286	286
Aske me no more why there appears		62	70	70
Bacchus I am, come from		61	69	69
Be merry in sorrow		1b	6	8
Be not thou so foolish nice		61	69	69
Blind Fortune, if thou want’st		163	172	172
Bring forth your Cunny-skins	ii.	8	196	196
But since it was lately enacted	ii.	24	212	212
Call for the Master, oh, this			9	11
Call George again, boy	ii.	118	304	304
Calm was the evening, and clear			220	220
Calm was the evening, and clear			292	292
Cast your caps and cares aside		87	92	92
Come, Drawer, and fill us about	ii.	80	263	263
Come, Drawer, some wine	ii.	29		237
Come, Drawer, turn about the b.	ii.	86	268	268
Come, Drawer, come, fill us	ii.	3	190	190
Come, faith, let’s frolick	ii.	65	246	246
Come, hither, my own sweet	ii.	106		247
Come, Imp Royal, come away	ii.	45	231	231
Come, Jack, let’s drink a pot of Ale		45	52	52
Come, let us drink, the time invites		93	97	97
Come, let’s purge our brains		114	121	121
Come, my dainty Doxies, my Dove	ii.	44	230	230
Come, my Daphne, come away		86	91	91
Come, my delicate, bonny sweet		23	34	34
Cook Laurel would needs have	ii.	26	214	14
Discoveries of late have been	ii.	33		Rf
Doctors, lay by your irkesome		41	48	48
Fair Lady, for your New Year’s	ii.	81		Rn
Fetch me Ben Johnson’s scull			293	293
From Essex Anabaptist Laws	ii.	38		241
From hunger and cold, who lives	ii.	9	197	197
From Mahomet and Paganisme		164	174	174
From the fair Lavinian shore			291	291
From what you call’t Town		191	182	182
Full forty times over I have, &c.	ii.	61		Ri
Gather your rosebuds while	ii.	11	199	199
Go, you tame Gallants	ii.	57	242	242
God bless my good Lord Bishop		166	176	176
Good Lord, what a pass is this		75	79	79
Had she not care enough			211	211
Hang Chastity! it is		88		220
Have you observed the Wench	ii.	141	332	332
He is a fond Lover, that doateth	ii.	62		Rl
He that a happy life would lead	ii.	147	339	339
He that intends to take a wife	ii.	153	342	342
Heard you not lately of a man		169	180	180
Here’s a health unto his Majesty			212	212
Hey, ho, have at all!		168		Re
Hold, quaff no more	ii.	19	210	210
How happy is the Prisoner		101	107	107
How poor is his spirit	ii.	48	232	232
I am a bonny Scot, Sir		119	127	127
I am a Rogue, and a stout one	ii.	16	204	204
I came unto a Puritan to woo		73	77	77
I doat, I doat, but am a sot	ii.	53	237	237
I dreamt my Love lay in her bed		11		197
I have reason to fly thee	ii.	97	281	281
I have the fairest Non-perel	ii.	99	283	283
I loved a maid—she loved not me	ii.	151		Rp
I marvel, Dick, that having been		46	54	54
I mean to speak of England’s		85		218
I met with the Divel in the shape		103	109	109
I pray thee, Drunkard, get thee	ii.	119	306	306
I tell thee, Kit, where I have been			317	317
I went from England into France		64		213
If any one do want a House	ii.	64		Rm
If any so wise is, that Sack	ii.	157	348	348
If every woman were served in her		80	85	85
If none be offended with the scent	ii.	77	259	259
If that you will hear of a ditty	ii.	149		253
If thou wilt know how to chuse		21	32	32
If you will give ear	ii.	46		Rg
I’ll go no more to the Old Exchange		126	134	134
I’ll sing you a sonnet, that ne’er			66	66
I’ll tell thee, Dick, where I have		97	101	101
I’ll tell you a story, that never w. t.		123	131	131
In Eighty-eight, e’er I was born		77	82	82
In the merry month of May			99	99
It chanced not long ago, as I was	ii.	82	264	264
It was a man, and a jolly old man		95		222
Ladies, I do here present you	ii.	55	240	240
Lay by your pleading, Law		118	125	125
Lay by your pleading, Love lies a	ii.	4	191	191
Let dogs and divels die		31	41	41
Let Souldiers fight for praise	ii.	31	218	218
Let the Trumpet sound	ii.	142	333	333
Let’s call, and drink the cellar dry		130	138	138
Listen, lordings, to my story	ii.	32		240
Mine own sweet honey bird		153		Rc
My bretheren all attend		91	95	95
My Lodging is on the cold ground			290	290
My Masters, give audience	ii.	91	275	275
My Mistris is a shittle-cock		51	60	60
My Mistris is in Musick		154	163	163
My Mistris, whom in heart		107	113	113
Nay, out upon this fooling		79	84	84
Nay, prithee, don’t fly me		25	36	36
Ne’er trouble thy self at the times			219	219
Nick Culpepper and William Lilly		56		190
No man Love’s fiery passion	ii.	1	187	187
No sooner were the doubtful people	ii.	58	243	243
Now, gentlemen, if you will hear		18	29	29
Now I am married, Sir John	ii.	96	280	280
Now, I confess, I am in love		1	5	7
Now Lambert’s sunk, and gallant		12		198
Now thanks to the Powers below		156	166	166
Now that the Spring has filled	ii.	110	296	296
Now we are met in a knot	ii.	138	328	328
O that I could by any Chymick	ii.	31		239
O the wily, wily Fox	ii.	114	300	300
Of all the Crafts that I do know		7	17	17
Of all the rare juices			178	178
Of all the Recreations, which			146	146
Of all the Sciences beneath the Sun	ii.	129	319	319
Of all the Sports the world doth	ii.	111	296	296
Of all the Trades that ever I see	ii.	40	225	225
Of an old Souldier of the Queen’s		20	31	31
Oliver, Oliver, take up thy Crown	ii.	72	254	254
Once was I sad, till I grew to be		2b	10	12
Pox take you, Mistris, I’ll be gone	ii.	118	304	304
Pray, why should any man	ii.	87	270	270
Riding to London, in Dunstable		14		200
Room for a Gamester	ii.	10	197	197
Room for the best Poets heroick!		96	100	100
Saw you not Pierce the piper	ii.	124	312	312
She lay all naked in her bed	ii.	115	300	300
She lay up to the navel bare	ii.	116		Ro
She that will eat her breakfast	ii.	120	308	308
Shew a room, shew a room	ii.	145	337	337
Sir Eglamore, that valiant knight	ii.	75	257	257
Some Christian people all give ear		81	87	87
Some wives are good, and some			302	302
Stay, shut the gate!	ii.	18	207	207
Sublimest discretions have club’d			287	287
The Aphorisms of Galen	ii.	94	277	277
The best of Poets write of F.		141	153	153
The Hunt is up, the Hunt is up		20	30	30
The Proctors are two, and no more		105	111	111
The Spring is coming on		40	47	47
The thirsty Earth drinks up			22	22
The Turk in linnen wraps		13	25	25
The Wise Men were but seven			232	232
The World’s a bubble, and the life		104	110	110
There dwelt a Maid in the C. g.		37	46	46
There is a certain idle kind of cr.		140	152	152
There was a jovial Tinker		17	27	27
There was a Lady in this land		134		223
There was an old man had an acre		44	52	52
There was three birds that built		139		Ra
There was three Cooks in C	ii.	129	318	318
There’s a lusty liquor which		132	140	140
There’s many a blinking verse	ii.	35	221	221
Three merry Boys came out			220	220
Three merry Lads met at the Rose			143	143
’Tis not the Silver nor Gold		109	115	115
To friend and to foe		38	23	23
Tobacco that is wither’d quite		16	26	26
Tom and Will were Shepherd			149	149
Upon a certain time			146	Rb
Upon a Summer’s day		148		230
Wake all you Dead, what ho!			151	151
Walking abroad in the m.		76	81	81
We Seamen are the honest boys		152	162	162
What an Ass is he, Waits, &c.	ii.	90	273	273
What Fortune had I, poor Maid	ii.	152	341	341
What is that you call a Maid.	ii.	68	249	249
What though the ill times do run		116	124	124
What though the times produce		161		Rd
When blind god Cupid, all in an	ii.	2	188	188
When first Mardike was made		4	12	12
When first the Scottishwar		89	93	93
When I a Lady do intend to flatter	ii.	158	348	348
When I do travel in the night	ii.	73	255	255
When I’se came first to London	ii.	133	323	323
When Phœbus had drest	ii.	69	250	250
When the chill Charokoe blows		155	164	164
White bears have lately come		149	159	159
Why should a man care	ii.	146	337	337
Why should we boast of Arthur	ii.	122	309	309
Why should we not laugh	ii.	136	326	326
Will you hear a strange thing		53	62	62
You Gods, that rule upon	ii.	21		233
You talk of New England	ii.	84	266	266
You that in love do mean to sport	ii.	22		235