VVHen onely one doth guide the Ship,
That neither Card nor Compass knows,
The Master, Pilot, Men asleep,
The stately Ship is split on shoals.
But when they wake, they start, and tare, and cry,
Who's in the fault? Nor I, nor I, nor I.
London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H.
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- Title
- London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H.
- Author
- Hicks, William, fl. 1671.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by F. Eglesfield ...,
- 1673.
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- Subject terms
- Songs, English -- Texts.
- English wit and humor.
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"London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43693.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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Page 15
Even so it fares with a High and Mighty State,
Not guided by the Master, but the Mate.