An antidote against melancholy: made up in pills. Compounded of witty ballads, jovial songs, and merry catches.

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Title: An antidote against melancholy: made up in pills. Compounded of witty ballads, jovial songs, and merry catches.
Author: J. P.
Publication: London :: printed for John Playford at his shop in the Temple,; 1669.
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Subject terms: English wit and humor
Cite this Item: "An antidote against melancholy: made up in pills. Compounded of witty ballads, jovial songs, and merry catches." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A82147.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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20 Catch.

There was three Cooks in Colebrook
And they fell out with our Cook,
And all was for a pudding he took,
And from the Cook of Colebrook.
There was swash cook, and slash cook,
And thy Nose in my Narse Cook,
And all was for a pudding he took,
And from the cook of Colebrook.
Then they fell all upon our Cook,
And mumbled him so, that he did look
As black as the pudding which that he took,
And from the Cook of Colebrook.