CONTENTS.

PRELUDE.

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION TO CHOICE DROLLERY: 1656

To the READER.

Choice DROLLERY: SONGS AND Sonnets . The broken Heart. 1 Deare

EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY, 1661

To the Reader. (2)

Ballads, Songs, and Catches in this Book.

Pills to Purge Melancholly.

EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT: 1. ON THE "AUTHOR" OF AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY , 1661.

ADDITIONAL SONGS FROM THE Westminster-Drollery : Edition 1674.

EXTRA SONGS and POEMS, IN Merry Drollery, 1661: ( Omitted from

APPENDIX. Notes, Illustrations, Various Readings, and Emendations of Text.

FINALE.

Drollery Reprints.

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Note

Choyce Drollery.

Choyce
DROLLERY:
SONGS & SONNETS.

BEING
A Collection of Divers Excellent
Pieces of Poetry,
OF SEVERAL EMINENT AUTHORS.

Now First Reprinted from the Edition of 1656.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE EXTRA SONGS OF
MERRY DROLLERY, 1661,
AND AN
ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY, 1661:
EDITED,
With Special Introductions, and Appendices of Notes,
Illustrations, Emendations of Text, &c.,
By J. Woodfall Ebsworth, M.A., Cantab.

BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE:
Printed by Robert Roberts, Strait Bar-Gate.
M,DCCCLXXVI.

TO THOSE
STUDENTS OF ART,
AMONG WHOM HE FOUND
Friendship and Enthusiasm;
BEFORE HE LEFT THEM,
Winners of Unsullied Fame,
AND SOUGHT IN A QUIET NOOK
Content, instead of Renown:
THESE
“DROLLERIES OF THE RESTORATION”
ARE BY THE EDITOR
DEDICATED.