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Choyce Drollery

by J. Woodfall Ebsworth

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  1. 1Epigraph — Dedication
  2. 2Prelude
  3. 3Editorial — Introduction — To Choice Drollery: 1656
  4. 4§ 1 — Choyce Drollery Inhibited
  5. 5§ 2 — The Two Courts, in 1656
  6. 6§ 3 — Songs of Love and War
  7. 7§ 4 — On the Pastorals
  8. 8Choyce Drollery: Songs & Sonnets
  9. 9To the Reader
  10. 10Choice — Drollery: Songs and Sonnets
  11. 11Of a Woman That Died for Love of a Man
  12. 12On the Time-Poets
  13. 13The Vow-breaker
  14. 14The Sympathie
  15. 15The Red Head and the White
  16. 16Sonnet
  17. 17On the Flower-de-luce in Oxford
  18. 18Aldobrandino, a Fat Cardinal
  19. 19Jack of Lent’s Ballat
  20. 20A Song
  21. 21Upon a House of Office Over a River, Set on Fire by a Coale of Tobacco
  22. 22Upon the Spanish Invasion in Eighty Eight
  23. 23Upon the Gun-powder Plot
  24. 24A Catch
  25. 25A Pitiful Lamentation
  26. 26A Woman With Child That Desired a Son, Which Might Prove a Preacher
  27. 27The Maid of Tottenham
  28. 28To the King on New-yeares Day, 1638
  29. 29In Praise of a Deformed Woman
  30. 30On a Tinker
  31. 31Upon His Mistris’s Black Eye-browes
  32. 32To My Lady of Carnarvon, January 1
  33. 33The Western Husband-man’s Complaint in the Late Wars
  34. 34The High-way Man’s Song
  35. 35Against Fruition, &c.
  36. 36Upon Mr. Fullers Booke, Called Pisgah-sight
  37. 37On a Sheepherd That Died for Love
  38. 38The Shepheards Lamentation for the Losse of His Love
  39. 39A Ballad on Queen Elizabeth; to the Tune of Sallengers Round
  40. 40A Ballad on King James; to the Tune of When Arthur First in Court B…
  41. 41Upon the Death of a Chandler
  42. 42Upon the Scots Being Beaten at Muscleborough Field
  43. 43Lipps and Eyes
  44. 44On Black Eyes
  45. 45Crvelty
  46. 46A Sonnet
  47. 47The Doctors Touchstone
  48. 48A Copy of Verses of a Mony Marriage
  49. 49The Baseness of Whores
  50. 50A Lover Disclosing His Love to His Mistris
  51. 51The Contented Prisoner His Praise of Sack
  52. 52Of Desire
  53. 53Upon Kinde and True Love
  54. 54Upon His Constant Mistresse
  55. 55The Ghost-Song
  56. 56Table of First Lines to the Songs and Poems in Choice Drollery, 165…
  57. 57Editorial — Introduction — To the Antidote Against Melancholy, 1661
  58. 58§ 1 — Reprint of an Antidote
  59. 59§ 2 — Ingredients of an “Antidote”
  60. 60To the Reader
  61. 61Ballads, Songs, and Catches in This Book
  62. 62Pills to Purge Melancholly — The Ex-Ale-tation of Ale
  63. 63An Old Song of an Old Courtier and a New
  64. 64The Ballad of St. George for England
  65. 65A Ballad Call’d Blew Cap for Me
  66. 66The Ballad of the Caps
  67. 67A Song on the Schismatick Rotundos
  68. 68The Welshmans Song, in Praise of Wales
  69. 69On a Pint of Sack
  70. 70A Song in Praise of Sack
  71. 71In the Praise of Wine
  72. 72On a Cold Chyne of Beef
  73. 73A Song of Cupid Scorn’d
  74. 74A Catch
  75. 75A Catch
  76. 76A Catch
  77. 77A Catch
  78. 78A Catch
  79. 79A Catch
  80. 80A Catch
  81. 81A Catch
  82. 82A Catch
  83. 83A Catch
  84. 84A Catch
  85. 85The Answer
  86. 86A Catch
  87. 87A Catch
  88. 88A Catch
  89. 89A Catch
  90. 90A Catch
  91. 91A Catch
  92. 92A Song
  93. 93A Catch
  94. 94Upon a Welchman
  95. 95A Song
  96. 96A Catch
  97. 97Editorial Postscript — 1 — On the “Author” of an Antidote Against M…
  98. 98Editorial Postscript: 2 — Arthur o’ Bradley
  99. 99Additional Songs From the Westminster-Drollery: Edition 1674 — A Song
  100. 100A Song
  101. 101A Song
  102. 102A Song
  103. 103Wickham Wakened, or the Quakers Madrigall in Rime Dogrell
  104. 104I — In Part First
  105. 105Merry Drollery, 1661: Extra Songs in Part Second. (Omitted in 1670…
  106. 106Appendix — Notes, Illustrations, Various Readings, and Emendations…
  107. 1071 — Choyce Drollery, 1656
  108. 108Appendix. Part 2 — Antidote Against Melancholy. 1661
  109. 109Part 3
  110. 110Part 4
  111. 111Finale
  112. 112Drollery Reprints

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