Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry of Several Eminent Authors to which are Added the Extra Songs of Merry Drollery, 1661, and an Antidote Against Melancholy, 1661Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth |
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... Tom D'Urfey afterwards employed , and kept alive before the public , in many a volume from before 1684 until 1720 , if not later . Whether " N. D. " himself were the 66 Mer [ cury ] Melancholicus ” whose name appears as printer , for ...
... Tom D'Urfey afterwards employed , and kept alive before the public , in many a volume from before 1684 until 1720 , if not later . Whether " N. D. " himself were the 66 Mer [ cury ] Melancholicus ” whose name appears as printer , for ...
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... Tom D'Urfey in 1719-20 , is unbroken ; though we have still to find the edition published between 1661 and 1684 . But even the 1661 Antidote is not entitled to bear the credit of originating the phrase : Pills to purge Melancholy . So ...
... Tom D'Urfey in 1719-20 , is unbroken ; though we have still to find the edition published between 1661 and 1684 . But even the 1661 Antidote is not entitled to bear the credit of originating the phrase : Pills to purge Melancholy . So ...
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... Tom , if Suckling were alive , And knew who Harry were to wive . ' In D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy , 1699 , p . 81 : ed . 1719 , iii , 65 , is a different " New Ballad " " upon a Wedding " [ at Lambeth ] 380 Appendix .
... Tom , if Suckling were alive , And knew who Harry were to wive . ' In D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy , 1699 , p . 81 : ed . 1719 , iii , 65 , is a different " New Ballad " " upon a Wedding " [ at Lambeth ] 380 Appendix .
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... Tom D'Urfey and Tom Brown ( who squabbled between themselves , by the bye ) , in a still later " Sessions of the Poets Holden at the foot of Parnassus Hill , July the 9th , 1696 : London , printed for E. Whitlock , near Stationers ...
... Tom D'Urfey and Tom Brown ( who squabbled between themselves , by the bye ) , in a still later " Sessions of the Poets Holden at the foot of Parnassus Hill , July the 9th , 1696 : London , printed for E. Whitlock , near Stationers ...
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Page 274 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 375 - Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane!
Page 156 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 313 - I'LL sing you a good old song, Made by a good old pate, Of a fine old English gentleman, Who had an old estate; And who kept up his old mansion At a bountiful old rate; With a good old porter to relieve The old poor at his gate. Like a fine old English gentleman, All of the olden time. His hall, so old, was hung around With pikes, and guns, and bows, And swords, and good old bucklers, That had stood against old foes; 'Twas there "his worship...
Page 421 - Questi non hanno speranza di morte, E la lor cieca vita è tanto bassa, . Che invidiosi son d
Page 348 - True; a new Mistresse now I chase, The first Foe in the Field; And with a stronger Faith imbrace A Sword, a Horse, a Shield. Yet this Inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore; I could not love thee (Deare) so much, Lov'd I not Honour more.
Page 348 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 169 - After that, the King led a lady a single Coranto; and then the rest of the lords, one after another, other ladies; very noble it was, and great pleasure to see. Then to country dances ; the King leading the first, which he called for; which was, says he, "Cuckolds all awry,
Page xix - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I ; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Page xxxi - Stay for me there; I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale: And think not much of my delay; I am already on the way, And follow thee with all the speed Desire can make, or sorrows breed.