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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A Catch.

FOrtune is blind,
And Beauty is kind:
They've neither faith nor troth;
The one is a Witch,
And t' other's a Bitch:
The Devil take them both.

There's hazard by hap,
To sit in a Lap;
But there's no deceit in a Brimmer,
Truth in the bottom does lie;
But the way to redeem her,
Is to drink the whole Ocean dry.