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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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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A Song. To Fortune.
1.
BLind Fortune, if thou want'st a Guide,I'll teach thee how thou maist divide;Distribute unto each his due:Justice is blind, Justice is blind,Justice is blind, and so are you.
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To th' Usurer this doom impart,May the Scrivener break his heart;His Debtors unto Beggery fall;Or what's as bad, or what's as bad,Or what's as bad, Turn Courtiers all.
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And to the Tradesmen that sell dear,A long Vacation all the year:Revenge thee thus on their deceits;And send them Wives, and send them Wives,And send them Wives light as their Weights.
4.
But Fortune, who will recompenceThe Frenchmans daily Insolence?For them I know no greater pain,Then to be sent, then to be sent,Then to be sent to France again.
Chorus in Two Parts.
5.
If these Instructions make thee wise,Men will restore again thine Eyes;By a New Stile thou shalt commence,Not Fortune call'd, not Fortune call'd,Not Fortune call▪d, but Providence.
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But lest thine Altars want all fires,To bribe mens votes, grant their desires.
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To Lovers who would not believeTheir sweet mistakes, their sweet mistakes,Their sweet mistakes, thy Blindness give.
7.
Then lest the Players should grow poor,Send them Aglaura's more and more:And to the Roundhead grant more EarsThan Ceres in, than Ceres in,Than Ceres in her Garland wears.
8.
And if thou wilt Physicians please,Send them another new Disease.To Schollars give, if thou canst do't,A Benefice, a Benefice,A Benefice without a Suit.
9.
To Courtiers grant them pleasures high,And to their Wives Community.So Fortune, thou wilt please them all;If Lords do rise, if Lords do rise,If Lords do rise, and Ladies fall.
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10.
And to the Lawyers I'll beseechAs much for Silence as for Speech.To Ladies Ushers strength of Back;And to my Self, and to my Self,And to my Self a Cup of Sack.
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