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Title: VVit and drollery,: joviall poems. Never before printed. / By Sir J.M. Ja:S. Sir W.D. J.D. and other admirable wits.
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Print source: VVit and drollery,: joviall poems. Never before printed. / By Sir J.M. Ja:S. Sir W.D. J.D. and other admirable wits.
W. D., J. P., J. M., J. D.
London: Printed for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Cornhil, 1656.
Subject terms:
Humorous poetry, English
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96732.0001.001
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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.