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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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 June 15, 2024.

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On a Rhodomontade.

FOrtune, the Mother of Inconstancie, Doth pride her self that she may constant be To me, whose Breath can whirl her Wheel about, And with a look can put the Gods in doubt. I with a word the Sun in's full carreer Can stop, and th' Heavens on my Shoulders bear. I from fierce Thundring Jove can's Scepter take, And with a frown can make Black Pluto quake. I hopping Vulcan from his Fiery Cave Can drag, and make him to become my Slave.

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I with one single word int' Attoms can Dispatiate, and turn the Stoutest Man Into a Chaos: I the Universe Can change, and the Decrees of Fate reverse.
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