Merry Drollery Compleat (1691)

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Merry
Drollery
Compleat:
Or, A
Collection

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Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, Witty Drolleries,

Intermixed with Pleasant Catches.

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The First Part.

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Collected by
W.N. C.B. R.S. J.G.
Lovers of Wit.

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London,

Printed for William Miller, at the Gilded Acorn, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, where Gentlemen and others may be furnished with most sorts of Acts of Parliament, Kings, Lord Chancellors, Lord Keepers, and Speakers Speeches, and other sorts of Speeches, and State Matters; as also Books of Divinity, Church-Government, Humanity, Sermons on most Occasions, &c. 1691.

To the
Reader:

Courteous Reader,

We do here present thee with a Choice Collection of Wit and Ingenuity, many of which were obtained with much difficulty, and at a Chargeable Rate; It is Composed so as to please all Complexions, Ages, and Constitutions of either Sexes, and is now Completed.

Farewel.

The Contents of the first Part.

		Page
Now I confess I am in Love		5
Be merry in sorrow, why are you so sad		7
Amerillis told her swaine		8
Call for the Master oh this is fine		9
Once I was sad till I grew to be mad		10
When first Mardike was made a Prey		12
Of all the Crafts that I do know		17
The thirsty Earth drinks up the Rain		22
To friend and to foe		23
The Fashions		25
Tobacco that is withered quite		26
There was a Jovial Tinker		27
Now Gentlemen if you will hear		29
The Hunt is up		30
Of an old souldier of the Queen		31
If thou will know how to chuse a shrew		32
Come my delicate bonny sweet Betty		34
Nay prethee don’t fly me &c.		36
A fox a fox up Gallant to the field		38
Ah Ah come see what’s here		40
Let dogs and divells dye		41
A young man that in Love &c,		42
There dwelt a maid &c.		46
The spring is coming on and our bloud &c,		47
Doctors lay by your Irksome books		48
There was an old man &c.		52
Come Jack let’s drink, or the Cavaleers complaint		52
The Answer to it		54
All in the Land of Essex		56
My Mistris is a Shittle-Cock		60
Will you hear a strange thing &c.		62
Of nothing a new song		66
Bacchus I am come from &c.		69
Be not thou so foolish nice		69
Aske me no more &c.		70
A Sessions was held the other day		72
I came unto a Puritan to woe		77
Good Lord what a pass is this world &c.		79
Walking abroad in a morning		81
In Eighty Eight &c.		82
Nay out upon this fooling for shame		84
If every woman was serv’d in her kind		85
Some Christian People all give ear		87
Come my Daphne come away		91
Cast your Caps and eares away		92
When first the Scottish war began		93
My Brethren all attend		95
Come let’s drink the time invites		97
In the merry month of May		99
Roome for the best of Poets Heroick		100
I tell thee Dick where I have been		101
How happy is the prisoner &c.		107
I met with the divel in the shape of a Ram		109
The world’s a bubble &c.		110
The Proctors are two and no more		111
My Mistris whom in heart &c.		113
Tis not the Silver nor Gold		115
After so many sad mishaps		118
Come lets purge our brains		121
What though the times		124
Lay by your pleading		125
I am a bonny scot		127
I’ll tell the a story &c.		131
I'll go no more to the old Exchange		134
Lets call and drink the Celler		138
There is lusty Liquor		140
Three merry lads met at the Rose		143
Of all the Recreations which		130
Tom and Will were shepherds		149
Wake all you dead what O		131
There a certain idle kind of creature		155
The Bow Goose		153
News while Bears &c.		153
We seamen are the bonny boys		162
My Mistris is in Musick passing &c.		163
When the Chill charakoe blows		164
Now thanks to the powers below		166
A maiden of late &c.		170
After the pains of a desperate Lover		171
Blind fortune if thou wants		172
From Mahomet and Paganisme		174
God bless my good Lord		177
Of all the rare sciences		178
Heard you not lately of a man		180
The Medly of the Country man Citizen and souldier		182
No man loves fiery passion can approve		187
When blind God Cupid &c.		188
Come Drawer come fill us &c.		190
Lay by your pleading		191
Bring forth your Cunny skin		196
From hunger and cold &c.		197
Roome for a Gamester		197
Gather your Rose buds		199
A story strange I will you tell		200
I am a Rogue and a stout one		204
Stay shut the Gate		207

Merry
Drollery,
Complete.
Or,
A Collection

Of $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$

Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, Witty Drolleries,

Intermixed with Pleasant Catches.

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The Second Part.

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The Second Part.

Hold quaffe no more		210
Had she not care enough		211
Here’s a Health to his Majesty		212
But since it was enacted high Treason		212
Cook Laurel by Ben Johnson		214
A fig for care		217
Let Souldiers fight for praise &c.		218
Ne’er trouble thy self at the times		219
Three merry boys came out of the West		220
Calm was the Evening		220
There’s many a blinking Verse &c.		221
The Blacksmith		225
Come my dainty doxes		230
Come Imp Royal &c.		231
The Wisemen		232
How poor is his spirit &c.		232
I am mad O noble Festus		234
I dote I dote but am a fool &c.		237
Ladies I do here present		240
The Combate of Cocks		242
Come let’s frolick fill some Sack		246
What is that you call a Maidenhead		249
When Phœbus addrest &c.		250
A Brewer may be a Burgess grave		252
Oliver Oliver		254
When I do travell in the night		255
Sir Eglamore		257
If none be offended &c.		259
Come drawer and fill us &c.		263
The Bulls feather		264
You talk of new England		266
Come drawer turn about the Bowle		268
Pray why should any man complain		270
What an ass is he		273
My masters give audience		275
The Aphorismes of Galen		277
Now I am merrier Sir John		280
I have reason to fly thee		281
I have the fairest Non-perel		283
Are you grown so melancholly		286
Sublimest discretions have climb’d &c.		288
A pox on the Jaylor		289
My lodging is on the cold ground		290
From the fair Lavinian shore		291
Fetch me Ben Johnsons scull &c.		293
Now that the spring &c.		296
Of all the sports in the world		296
The wily wily Fox		300
She lay all naked &c.		300
Some wives are good &c.		301
Call George again		304
Pox take your mistris		304
The Answer		306
She that will heat her break fast		308
St. George for England		309
Arthur of Bradley		312
On the Oxford Jeasts		317
There were three Cooks in Colebrook		318
The Blacksmith		319
When Ise came first to London Town		323
The merry good fellow		326
The Rebels Reign		326
Have you observ’d the wench in the street		332
A new Medley		333
Shew a Room shew a Room &c.		339
Why should a man care or be in despair		ibid
He that a happy life would lead		339
What fortune had I, poor maid that I am		341
He that intends to take a wife		342
If any so wise is, that Sack he despises		347
A mock Song		348

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