Choyce drollery, songs & sonnets being a collection of divers excellent pieces of poetry, of severall eminent authors, never before printed.

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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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"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 June 4, 2024.

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Page 93

The contented Prisoner his praise of Sack.

HOw happy's that Prisoner That conquers his fates, With silence, and ne're On bad fortune complaines, But carelessely playes With his Keyes on the Grates, And makes a sweet consort With them and his chayns. He drowns care with Sack, When his thoughts are opprest, And makes his heart float, Like a Cork in his Breast.
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