Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.

Title

Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.

Author

Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.

Publication

London :: Printed for R. Pollard, N. Brooks, and T. Dring, and are to be sold at the Old Exchange, and in Fleetstreet,

1658.

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Subject terms

Humorous poetry.

Burlesques.

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Cite this Item

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Contents

• title page
• WIT RESTOR'D.
  • Mr. Smith, to Captain Mennis then commanding a Troop of Horse in the North, against the Scots.
  • The same, To the same.
  • The same, to the same.
  • The same, to the same.
  • The same, to the same.
  • The same, to the same.
  • The same, to the same.
  • The Gallants of the Times.
  • The Answer,
  • The Bursse of Reformation.
  • The Answer.
  • On S. W. S. and L. P.
  • The Tytre-Tues, or A Mock-Songe
  • A Northern Ballet.
  • By Mr. Richard Barnslay.
  • Ad Johannuelem Leporem, Lepi∣dissimum, Carmen Heroicum.
  • Bagnall's Ballet, supplied of what was left out in Musarum Deliciae.
  • Mr. Smith, to Sir John Mennis, up∣on the surrender of Conway Castle
  • An answer to a Letter from Sr. John Mennis, wherein he eeres him for falling so quickly to the use of the Directory.
  • Mr. Smith's taking a Purge.
  • The Miller and the King's Daughter,
  • Mr. Smith, to Tom Pollard, and Mr. Mering.
  • Upon Iohn Felton's hanging in Chaines at Ports-mouth, for killing the Duke of Buckingham.
  • To Felton in the Tower.
  • To the Duke of Buckingham.
  • To the Same.
  • The Lawyer.
  • The Clients Transcription of the same Copy, having experienced the contrary.
  • The reverend Canvase.
  • A non sequitur, by Dr. Corbett.
  • Horat. 34. Carm. od 10. ad. Ligurium.
  • To his Mistris.
  • Upon a Cobler.
  • On the death of the Lord Treasurer.
  • The lover's Melancholy.
  • The answer, by Dr. Stroad.
  • A Blush.
  • To his Mistris.
  • On Christ-church windowe, and Magdlen Colledge wall.
  • An Elegie.
  • In imitation of Sir Philip Sydnie's Encomium of Mopsa.
  • A Scholler that sold his Cussion.
  • On the death of Cut. Cobler.
  • A Letter to Ben. Johnson.
  • On a young Lady, and her Knight.
  • On a Welch-man's devotion.
  • On a Maid's Legge.
  • To his Sister.
  • On the death of Hobson, the Cambridge-Carrier.
  • Another on the same.
  • Another.
  • Fr. Clark, Porter of St. Johns, To the President.
  • An Epitaph.
  • A Wife.
  • The constant man.
  • To his Mistris.
  • Swearing.
  • On a good Legg and Foot.
  • Upon the view of his Mistresse face in a Glasse.
  • On Bond the Userer.
  • To the Duke of Buckingham.
  • The Gentlemans verses before he Killed himselfe.
  • A Song in commendation of Musicke.
  • A Dialogue betwixt Cupid and a Country-Swaine.
  • Sighes.
  • Weomen.
  • On a dissemble.
  • To a Freind.
  • A Poeticall Poem, by Mr. Stephen Locket to Mistrisse Bess Sarney.
  • Thanks for a welcome.
  • To Phillis.
  • Women.
  • The World.
  • On his absent Mistresse.
  • The Constant Lover.
  • The Irish Beggar.
  • Answer.
  • A Question.
  • The Reply.
  • The Mock-Song.
  • The Moderatix.
  • The affirmative answer.
  • A discourse between a Poet and a Painter.
  • To B. R. for her Bracelets.
  • On Tom Holland and Nell Cotton.
  • A We lchman.
  • A Woman that scratcht her Husband.
  • A Mistris.
  • One fighting with his wife.
  • Ambition.
  • Upon a Gardiner.
  • On his first Love.
  • To his Mistris.
  • To his letter.
  • An Epitaph upon Hurry the Taylor.
  • Scylla toothlesse.
  • AVicar.
  • On a Ribband.
  • To a Gentlewoman, desiring a copie of Verses.
  • On Dr. Corbett's Marriage.
  • Mart. Epigr. 59 lib: 5.
  • In Richardum quendam, Divitem, Avarum.
  • In Thomam quendam Catharum.
  • Epilogus Incerti Authoris.
• title page
• The Epistle Dedicatory to the Reader.
• To his Worthy Friend Mr. I. S. upon his happy Innovation of Penelope and Vlysses.
• To his Precious Friend I. S. upon his choyse conceipt of Penelope and Ulysses.
• To his Sonne, upon his Minerva.
• To his Deare Friend Mr. I. S. upon his quaint Innovation of Penelope and Ulysses.
• The Author to the Author. To his worthy Friend I. S. upon his happy Translation of Ulysses and Penelope.
• The Author to himselfe.
• The Preface to that most elaborate piece of Poetry, entituled, Penelope and Ulysses.
• THE INNOVATION OF Vlysses and Penelope.
  • The Black-Smith. As it was sung before Ulysses and Penelope at their Feast, when he returned from their Trojan Warrs, collected out of Homer, Virgill and Ovid, by some of the Modern Familie of the Fancies.
  • A Prologue to the Mayor of Quinborough.
  • A Song.
  • The drunken Lover. J. D. Delight.
  • R. P. Delight.
  • An Old Song.
  • The Sowgelder's Song, in the Beggers-Bush.
  • A Song.
  • Phillada flouts me.
  • The Milk-maids.
  • The old Ballet of shepheard Tom.
  • Obsequies.
  • Of a Taylor and a Lowse.
  • The old Ballad of Little Musgrave and the Lady Barnard.
  • The Scots arrears.
  • Rebellis SCOTUS.
  • The Rebell SCOT.