Sportive vvit the muses merriment, a new spring of lusty drollery, joviall fancies, and a la mode lamponnes, on some heroic persons of these late times, never before exposed to the publick view / collected for the publick good by a club of sparkling wits, viz. C.J., B.J., L.M., W.T., cum multis alsis----
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- Sportive vvit the muses merriment, a new spring of lusty drollery, joviall fancies, and a la mode lamponnes, on some heroic persons of these late times, never before exposed to the publick view / collected for the publick good by a club of sparkling wits, viz. C.J., B.J., L.M., W.T., cum multis alsis----
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- 1656.
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The Dunners Dance.
1.
WIll you hear the mode of France,
To stop the mouthes of all that dun you?
Onely lead them in a dance,
Though you be behinde in money.
2.
If your Creditor do call
To pay for diet, wine, or rayment;
In your dance keep time withal,
But forget it in your payment.
3.
If your Taylor chance to strike you
With his Bill that stays no leasure;
Pay him with a dance, he'll like you,
And in stead of coyn, take measure.
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4.
If your Shoo-maker come on,
Turn your measure, quickly lead it;
Let that everlasting Dun
See his own Boots nimbly tread it.
5.
If your Lawyer seek you out
For Fees for this advice or t' other;
Make him dance, for all his Gout,
And pay one Motion with another.
6.
But if your Landlady do want,
You needs must satisfie her pleasure:
She despiseth your Corant;
She'll be paid in standing measure.
7.
Thus we do despise all care,
And thus we skip through all disasters;
That all the world cannot declare,
But we are nimble quick day-masters.