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 May 17, 2024.

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On the Death of the Earl of Sandwich.

IS Sandwich dead? Is that brave Hero gone Of Englands Architect, the corner Stone. Did he not think his dearest blood to dear To spend for us? and we deny a tear: Let's give him that, which we cannot deny To an expiring Valiant Enemy. Let's drain our eyes, and make him float again In our Salt tears, as once upon the Main. Let every one give honour to his Hearse, And every Poet cast on it a Verse. But O brave Sandwich, whose Pen must that be, That on thy Death can write an Elegie; Thou dy'st not like a Mortal; and if so, What Mortals Pen to write thy Death doth know.
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