'Cause I love it, quoth he.
Do you love it? quoth she;
So do I, sir.
Compare another copy of verses, "O Amis! quoth he. Well, Thomas! quoth she," in the Academy of Compliments, 1671, p. 270.
[19] A delightful rendering of the fourth ode of Anacreon. I have found a MS. copy of it in Rawlinson MS. Poet., 214, where it is ascribed (how truly I know not) to "Mr. Tho. Head." It occurs in several later miscellanies; and in the variorum translation of Anacreon published at Oxford in 1683. Here is Stanley's rendering of the same ode: it is good, but far inferior to the version in the Drollery:—
On this verdant lotus laid,
Underneath the myrtle's shade,
Let us drink our sorrows dead,
While Love plays the Ganymed.
Life like to a wheel runs round,
And, ere long, we underground
(Ta'en by Death asunder) must
Moulder in forgotten Dust.
Why then graves should we bedew,
Why the ground with odours strew?
Better whilst alive prepare
Flowers and unguents for our hair.
Come, my fair one, come away;
All our cares behind us lay;
That these pleasures we may know
Ere we come to those below.
[20] So ed. 1671.—Ed. 1655, "factious."
[21] So ed. 1671.—Ed. 1655, "fortune."
[22] So ed. 1671.—Ed. 1655, "we."
[23] "This poem was written by James Howell. It is printed among his Poems, 1664, p. 68. Also in Poems collected by P. F. [= P. Fisher], 1663. See my Note in Choyce Drollery, reprint, 1876, p. 298."—J. W. Ebsworth.
[24] Old ed. "My thought." The first two stanzas of this poem (which becomes somewhat enigmatical towards the end) are also found in The Westminster Drollery.
[25] Old ed. "pish;" but "push" (required for the rhyme), the reading in The Westminster Drollery, is an old form of "pish."