The Roxburghe ballads . ese hath my Jone to delight me :False wiles, Courte smiles, none of these hath Jone to. despight me. (1630.) iFinfe. [In the three-fold collection made by Captain William Hicks, entitled OxfordDrollery, 1671, the Second Part (not his own, which is the Third), p. 85, fivestanzas are given, viz. our four on p. 78, and the final stanza, And if we holdon as we begin, etc. Win. Hicks notes it as by one of the Oxford UniversityWits, the third and fourth verses being lately added. Of . Pills, ii. 175.] *#* From dancing round a May-pole to dangling a pole with May-flies, making
The Roxburghe ballads . ese hath my Jone to delight me :False wiles, Courte smiles, none of these hath Jone to. despight me. (1630.) iFinfe. [In the three-fold collection made by Captain William Hicks, entitled OxfordDrollery, 1671, the Second Part (not his own, which is the Third), p. 85, fivestanzas are given, viz. our four on p. 78, and the final stanza, And if we holdon as we begin, etc. Win. Hicks notes it as by one of the Oxford UniversityWits, the third and fourth verses being lately added. Of . Pills, ii. 175.] *#* From dancing round a May-pole to dangling a pole with May-flies, makingfish dance instead, is an easy transition. Our Jovial Anglers is in the 1670Merry Drollery Complete (not in 1661 edition), without the Massauiello stanza (5th). VOL. VII. G 82 [Roxburghe Collection, III. 232 ; Jersey (now Earl Crawfords), II. 248.] €f)e iRogal Eccceation of 3fotrial anglers Proving that all men are Intanglers,And all Professions are turnd Anglers. To the tune of, AmarilUs. [1663. See vol. vi. p. 113.]. OF all the Recreations which attend on humane nature,Theres nothing soares so high a pitch, or is of such a stature,As is a subtle Anglers life, in all Mens approbation,For Anglers tricks, do daily mix, with every Corporation. When Eve and Adam livd by love, and had no cause for jangling,The Devil did the waters move, the Serpent fell to angling :He baits his hook, with God-like look, quoth he, This will intangle her;The woman chops, and down she drops : the Devil was first an angler. Physitians, Lawyers, and Divines, are most ingenious janglers ;And he that tryes, shall find in fine that all of them are anglers:Whilst grave Divines doe fish for souls, Physitians, like cormudgeons,Do bait with health to fish for wealth, and Lawyers fish for gudgeons. A Politician, too, is one, concernd in Piscatory ; lie writes, and fights, unites, and slights, to purchase wealth, and glory ;His plummet sounds the kingdoms bounds to make the fishes nibble ;He draws em with a pa
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