Choyce drollery, songs & sonnets being a collection of divers excellent pieces of poetry, of severall eminent authors, never before printed.
- Title
- Choyce drollery, songs & sonnets being a collection of divers excellent pieces of poetry, of severall eminent authors, never before printed.
- Publication
- 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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- Cite this Item
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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 31, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- To the READER.
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Choice DROLLERY: SONGSAND SONNETS.- The broken Heart.
- Of a Woman that died for love of a Man.
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On the
TIME-POETS. - The Vow-breaker.
- The Sympathie.
- The Red head and the White.
- SONNET.
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On the Flower-de-luce in
Oxford. - ALDOBRANDINO, a fat Cardinal.
- Jack of Lent's Ballat.
- A SONG.
- Ʋpon a House of Office over a River, set on fire by a Coale of TOBACCO.
- Ʋpon the Spanish Invasion in Eighty eight.
- Ʋpon the Gun-powder Plot.
- A CATCH.
- A pitifull Lamentation.
- A Woman with Child that de∣sired a Son, which might prove a Preacher.
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The Maid of
Tottenham. - To the King on New-yeares day, 1638.
- In praise of a deformed woman.
- On a TINKER.
- Ʋpon his Mistris's black Eye-browes.
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To my Lady of
Carnarvon, January 1. - The Western Husband-man's Complaint in the late Wars.
- The High-way mans Song.
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Against Fruition,
&c. -
Ʋpon Mr.
Fullers Booke, calledPisgah-sight. - On a Sheepherd that died for Love.
- The Shepheards lamentation for the losse of his Love.
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A Ballad on Queen
Elizabeth; -
A Ballad on King
James; -
Ʋpon the death of a
Chandler. - poem
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Ʋpon the
Scots being beaten atMuscleborough field. - Lipps and Eyes.
- On black Eyes.
- CRVELTY.
- A Sonnet.
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The
Doctors Touchstone. - A copy of Verses of a mony Marriage.
- The basenesse of Whores.
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A Lover disclosing his love to his
Mistris. -
The contented Prisoner his praise of
Sack. - The Chorus.
- Of DESIRE.
- Ʋpon kinde and true Love.
- Ʋpon his Constant Mistresse.
- The Ghost-Song.