item: #1 of 6
          id: A43692
      author: Hickes, William, fl. 1671.
       title: Grammatical drollery consisting of poems & songs wherein the rules of the nouns & verbs in the accendence are pleasantly made easy, for the benefit of any that delight in a tract of this nature / by W. Hickes.
        date: 1682
       words: 25681
      flesch: 87
     summary: The Preterperfect Tense then began to plead , Protesting himself innocent of that deed : For though his time was perfectly past , yet he Said , I have lov'd amavi ferventlie ; For he and I do all such Quarrels shun , And never heard o' th' Battle , until 't was done . But male then being of an evil mind , Did joyn with pessime , the worst inclin'd To peace of any : Which sicut hearing , Said , 't was like as a War appearing .
    keywords: arms; call'd; cause; come; cou'd; crew; day; doll; doth; fight; good; hand; heart; love; man; men; mind; nay; ne'r; place; rest; says; set; sir; song; stand; thee; thou; thy; time; verbs; way; wou'd
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: A49304
      author: Smith, James, 1605-1667.
       title: The Loves of Hero and Leander a mock poem : with marginall notes, and other choice pieces of drollery ...
        date: 1653
       words: 9319
      flesch: 87
     summary: The Loves of Hero and Leander a mock poem : with marginall notes, and other choice pieces of drollery ... Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 893:6) The Loves of Hero and Leander a mock poem : with marginall notes, and other choice pieces of drollery ... Smith, James, 1605-1667.
    keywords: beggar; doth; god; hand; hath; head; hero; king; leander; love; maid; man; nose; quoth; text; thee; thou; thy; tree; water
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: A52015
      author: Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
       title: Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.
        date: 1658
       words: 36557
      flesch: 82
     summary: Satyr●…que tortri●… , tot huc adducite Flagella , qu●…t pr●…sens mere●…ur seculum Scoti ●…enfieis pares ; audax s●…ylum Hor●…re tinge , sic nocent minus . A fa●…t for all perfumes , a turd for roses Smell men but thee , they wish them selves all n●…ses .
    keywords: bee; care; day; death; doe; doth; downe; drink; dye; english; ere; eyes; face; faire; fall; friend; god; goe; good; grace; hand; happy; hast; hath; head; heart; heaven; hold; hone; iohn; king; lady; leave; lib; life; light; like; look; lord; love; man; mee; men; mind; muse; need; new; nose; place; play; quoth; rose; scot; selfe; shee; sir; smith; song; soul; sure; text; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; time; tom; tree; way; wee; white; wind; wit; women; world
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: A66741
      author: E. M.
       title: Wit and drollery joviall poems / corrected and much amended, with new additions, by Sir J.M. ... Sir W.D. ... and the most refined wits of the age.
        date: 1661
       words: 50966
      flesch: 82
     summary: SHall I woe thee lovely Molly , She is fair , fat , fine and Jolly , ●t she hath a trick of folly ; ●herefore I le have none of Molly , ●o no no , no no no , I 'le have none of Molly , ●o no no no no. The Gallants and Taylors are half years togeth●● To fit a new suite to a new Cap and feather , And whether to make it of Cloath , Silke , or Le● the And is not &c. New tricking , new triming new measures , ne● pac● New heads for our men , for women new faces And twenty new tricks to mend thir bad cases .
    keywords: alas; bed; black; body; care; cause; come; day; doth; drink; end; english; eyes; face; fair; fall; fat; fear; fine; fire; fit; free; god; good; hand; hath; head; heart; hold; home; horse; king; ladies; land; late; leave; lord; love; man; men; money; nere; new; night; nose; place; play; poor; pray; quoth; sack; self; set; shall; sing; sir; song; stand; tell; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; times; tom; vvith; want; way; white; wife; wish; wit; woman; work; world; ● ●
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: A89049
      author: H. H.
       title: Musarum deliciæ: or, The Muses recreation. Conteining severall select pieces of sportive vvit. / By Sr J.M. and Ja:S.
        date: 1655
       words: 17557
      flesch: 82
     summary: Sir Robert Cotton , well read in old stories , ( Having conferred his notes with Mr. Pories , I can well witnesse that these are no fables ) Said , 't was hard to put the Fart in his Tables . HOw now , my John , what , is 't the care Of thy small Flock , that keeps thee there ? Or hath the Bishop , in a rage , Forbid thy comming on our Stage ? Or want'st thou Coyn ? or want'st thou Steed ? These are impediments indeed : But , for thy Flock , thy Sexton may In due time ring , and let them pray .
    keywords: bed; day; doe; doth; drink; eyes; face; faire; fart; friends; good; hast; hath; head; heart; horse; iohn; john; king; know; let; love; man; men; muse; nose; place; quoth; sir; text; thee; thing; thou; thy; time; vpon; way
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: A96974
      author: Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690.
       title: Parnassus biceps. Or Severall choice pieces of poetry, composed by the best wits that were in both the universities before their dissolution. With an epistle in the behalfe of those now doubly secluded and sequestred Members, by one who himselfe is none.
        date: 1656
       words: 31858
      flesch: 78
     summary: T was this , t was this I feard When thy pale ghost appeard : What could you doe in Lent so meet As , fittest dresse , to wear a sheet ? T was once a band , t is now a cloak ; A acorne one day proves a oak .
    keywords: art; beauty; black; blood; body; church; cloak; day; death; doe; doth; eye; eyes; face; faire; glasse; god; good; grave; hand; hath; king; know; lesse; life; light; like; look; love; man; men; mistresse; nature; nere; new; sack; selfe; sing; state; sun; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; vpon; way; white; wit; world
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