VVit and drollery,: joviall poems. Never before printed. / By Sir J.M. Ja:S. Sir W.D. J.D. and other admirable wits.

Title

VVit and drollery,: joviall poems. Never before printed. / By Sir J.M. Ja:S. Sir W.D. J.D. and other admirable wits.

Publication

London :: Printed for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhil,

1656.

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Humorous poetry, English

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"VVit and drollery,: joviall poems. Never before printed. / By Sir J.M. Ja:S. Sir W.D. J.D. and other admirable wits." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96732.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE TRULY NOBLE Edward Pepes, Esq
• to the reader
• poem
  • The Preface to that most elaborate piece of Poetry entituled Penelope Ulysses.
  • Here endeth the Preface, and now beginneth the Book.
    • SONG.
• Loyalty confin'd.
• On Ben Johnsons Play called Magnetick Lady.
• Ben: Johnson's Answer to Dr. Gill.
• Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in answer to an Abusive Copie, crying down his Magnetick Lady.
• On Luce Morgan a Common-Whore.
• An Epitaph on a Whore.
• A mock-song.
  • The Answer.
• In praise of his Mistrisses beauty.
• A SONG.
• A Song of the Sea-Men and Land-soldiers.
• A Song,
• A Song.
• A SONG.
• Upon my Lord Majors day, being put off by reason of the Plague.
• A Song by Sir John Suckling.
  • The Answer by the same Author.
• Upon an old Scold.
• On a deformed old Woman (whorish) whom one was pleased to call the Phoenix.
• Upon Sir John Suckling.
  • Sir John Suckling's Answer.
• A Gentleman on his being trim'd by a Cobler.
• On Jack Wiseman.
• Love blinde, a Song.
• The Anglers Song.
• A Song.
• A Song.
• A SONG.
• Of banishing the Ladies out of Town.
• A SONG.
• A SONG.
  • An Answer.
• A Song.
• A SONG.
• A Song.
• A North Countrey Song.
• Verses written over the Chair of Ben: John∣son, now remaining at Robert Wilsons, at the signe of Johnson's head in the Strand.
• The long Vacation.
• A Song.
  • The Answer.
• Upon a Priest that lyes buried in Wells.
• A SONG.
• A Scholers answer to one that sent to borrow his Horse.
• A Song.
• A Song.
• poem
• A Song.
• Ʋpon the burning of a Petty School.
• Ʋpon the fall of Wisbech Bridge.
• Ʋpon the fall of the Miter in Cambridge.
• A match at Cock-fighting.
• On the praise of fat Men.
• On the print of a Ladies foot, cut on the Leades of Kings Colledge Chappel, where before she had fallen.
• To a Lady commanding him to write a defiance to Love.
• To a Lady on a fall, in which she had almost discovered more then all the VVorld besides could shew.
• On a Knife that cut a Ladies finger.
• A Description of the miseries of a moneylesse Pocket.
• On a London Taylor who spoiled a Com∣mencement Gowne in the making.
• On a Bile.
• To a Gentlewoman from her formerly be∣trothed, but diserted servant, he being invited to the celebration of her Nuptials.
• Cupides Holyday.
• To his VVhore who askt money of him.
• On the Souldiers walking in the New Ex∣change to affront the Ladies.
• Another.
• The hornes a Song.
• To his Mistrisse denying him to lie with her.
• Ʋpon a Christmas Dinner in a Prison.
• Song.
• Solicitation to a married Woman.
• Tom of Bedlam.
• A Song.
• Cupid and the Clown.
• A Song.
• The Queens Speech.
• The Queens Reason.
• A Song.
• A Song.
• A Song.
• The Reform'd Ʋniversity.
• The shiftlesse Student.
• The Townsmen's Petition to the King that Cambridge might be made a City.
• The draining of the Fennes.
• Nonsense.
• In praise of Ale.
• A Ridle of a Goosbery.
• A Bull Prologue.
• Another Prologue.
• An Epilogue upon the honest Lawyer.
• A Resolution not to Marry.
• Loves Progresse.