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 June 15, 2024.

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Page 64

Faults in Foreheads.

IF each ones Faults were in his Forehead writ, Lives onely would be read, the rest rejected. Nor Hats nor Bonnets then would eas'ly fit, And lowest foreheads would be most respected. The holy Hermit would be apprehended Of Crimes unthought of, till we read 'em there: Reputed Virgins would, Thirteen once ended, In Colours full of Guiltiness appear. Nor I my self that should my self know best, Nor thou, dear Mistress, be at all exempted; We should be both on many tongues profest, Thou for thy yielding, I for having tempted. But why should'st thou one fault for me avow? Thy fautls are written in thy Husbands Brow.
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