Choyce drollery, songs & sonnets being a collection of divers excellent pieces of poetry, of severall eminent authors, never before printed.
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Choyce drollery, songs & sonnets being a collection of divers excellent pieces of poetry, of severall eminent authors, never before printed.
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London :: Printed by J.G. for Robert Pollard, and John Sweeting,
1656.
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Subject terms
Ballads, English.
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
English wit and humor.
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"Choyce drollery, songs & sonnets being a collection of divers excellent pieces of poetry, of severall eminent authors, never before printed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32872.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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descriptionPage 62
Ʋpon Mr. Fullers Booke, called Pisgah-sight.
FUller of wish, than hope, methinks it is▪For me to expect a fuller work than this,Fuller of matter, fuller of rich sense,Fuller of Art fuller of Eloquence;Yet dare I not be bold, to intitle thisThe fullest work; the Author fuller is,Who, though he empty not himself, can fillAnother fuller, yet continue stillFuller himself, and so the Reader beAlwayes in hope a fuller work to see.
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