An antidote against melancholy: made up in pills. Compounded of witty ballads, jovial songs, and merry catches.
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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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English wit and humor
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"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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44 Catch.
Bess black as a Charcole,Was found in a dark hole,With Kit, at the Cat and the Fiddle;But what they did there,None safely can swear,Yet Gentlemen Riddle my Riddle.
'Troth I would be loth,Were I put to my oath,To swear Kit with Bess did ingender;Yet it would tempt a man,Bridle all he can,His present wishes to tender.
But it was found at last,E're twelve-months was past,That Cristopher Bess had o're master'd,For betwixt either ThighHe quartered so nigh,She brought him a Jolly brown Bastard.
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