RICHARD TARLTON.

Preface.

Humour, Wit, and Satire of the Seventeenth Century.

On a drawer drunk.

Upon the weights of a Clock.

Nonsense.

Of Lynus borrowing.

The Woman to the Plow and The Man to the Hen Roost.

On a cowardly Souldier.

On a fly in a glasse.

Upon a Churle that was a great usurer.

The Devill and the Fryar.

On Battus.

The Unconscionable Batchelors of DARBY,

In Getam.

On Button a Sexton making a grave.

On Jack Wiseman.

Of a Woman's Kindnesse to her Husband.

Of Marcus.

On Sextus.

The Rurall Dance about the May-pole.19

On Charismus.

Of a drunken Smith.

Sorte tuâ contentus.

[15.] THE JOLLY WELSH WOMAN

On a Watch lost in a Tavern.

Of a Precise Taylor.

On a gentleman that married an heire privately at the Tower.

Of Galla's goodly Periwigge.

An Invitation to Lubberland.

Epitaph On an usurer.

In praise of the Black Jack28

The invincible PRIDE of WOMEN or The London Tradesman's Lamentation

On a little Gentleman and one Mr Story.

Epitaph on a Scrivener.

These following are to be understood two ways.

The Devil's Oak:

The Long Nos'd Lass

The Long-Nos'd LASS or

A Dialogue concerning Hair, between a Man and a Woman.

M.

W.

M.

W.

M.

W.

M.

W.

MARK NOBLE'S FROLLICK;

Against Swearing.

One fighting with his wife.

The Welch Mans Inventory.

Upon one Day that ran away, and laid the Key under Door.

THE GREAT BOOBEE.53

Ad Johannuelem Leporem, Lepidissimum; Carmen Heroicum.

Of Treason.

On the word intollerable.

The cunning Northerne Begger

A contest at the Hoop-Tavern between two Lawyers.

Of inclosing a Common.

A Caution for Scolds or A True Way of Taming a Shrew.

On Galla going to the Bath.

On a farmer knighted.

Of Milo the Glutton.

A Pleasant new Ballad you here may behold, How the Devill, though subtle, was guld by a Scold.

Solution.

On one in debt.

Scylla toothlesse.

The Picture of an English Antick, with a List of his ridiculous Habits and apish Gestures.

A new married Bride.

Of finding a hare.

In Richardum quendam, Divitem, Avarum.

The Dumb MAID,62 or, the Young Gallant Trappan'd.

Morrall.

The Connicatcher68 and Priest of Paris.

On Bond the Usurer.

THE POETS DREAM69 OR, The Great Out-cry and Lamentable Complaint of the Land against BAYLIFFS and their DOGS.

The dumbe wife recovered her speech.

A Courtier and a Scholler meeting.

The little Barly-Corne.73

The Tanner and the Butcher's dogge.

Cede majoribus.

Why women weare a fall.

The poore man payes for all.

A Witty answer of a Countrey fellow.

A merry Jest of John Tomson and Jakaman his Wife Whose Jealousie was justly the cause of all their strife.

Conditions of Sale.

THE VIRGIN RACE Or, York-shires Glory.

Quidam erat.

Mercurius Matrimonialis or Chapmen for the Ladies lately Offered to Sale by Way of Auction.

SELDOME CLEANELY90

The Astrologer's Bugg Beare.

The country-mans lamentation for the death of his cow.

On a certaine present sent from an Archbishop to his friend.

Englished thus.

NEWES FROM MORE-LANE.

The Tune is, A Health to the best of Men.

Chronogramma. Anno 1628. obiit GeorgIVs DVX BVCkInghaMIæ

On Anne Angel marrying a Lawyer.

To my Booke-seller.

A Merry Dialogue between Thomas and John. in the praise and dispraise of Women and Wine.

Thomas

John

Thomas

John

Thomas

John

Thomas

John

Thomas

John

Thomas

John

Thomas

John

A Bovlster Lectvre.

PORTSMOUTH'S Lamentation

To one that desired me not to name him.

The Humour of Bumpkin.

A pleasant new Ballad to sing both Even and Morne, Of the bloody murther of Sir John Barley corne.

How Tarlton tooke Tobacco at the first comming up of it.

The PARLIAMENTS X Commandements

The Parliaments PATER NOSTER.

The ARTICLES of the FAITH.

The Miser mump'd of his Gold.

THE WELSHMAN'S PRAISE OF WALES.

The Young-Man & Maidens Forecast; shewing how They Reckon'd their Chickens before they were Hatcht.

The Scolding WIFE.

[85.] A Lampoon on the Greenwich Strowlers.

Upon Thorough-good, an unthrift.

THE UNFORTUNATE FENCER;147 or The Couragious Farmer of Gloucester-shire shewing How this huffing Spark went down into those Parts, Challenging any one at all sorts of Weapons; and at length (was) shamefully Conquer'd by a Country Farmer.

Come buy this new Ballad, before you doe goe; If you raile at the Author, I know what I know.

To his Quill.

[128.] Caricature of different religious sects. 1646.

AdamiteSeeker

ArminianDiuorcer

AnabaptistIesuit

The Cruell Shrow:155 or The Patient Mans Woe

The Unfortunate WELCH MAN or The Untimely Death of Scotch Jockey.

Times Alteration

On a Cobler.

The humble Petition of us the Parliaments poore Souldiers in the Army of Ireland, whereof many are starved already, and many dead for want of Chirurgions.

Good Ale for my Money171

A Health to all Good-Fellowes: or The good Companions Arithmaticke.

The following was written in 1646, and is a satire on the then feeling of the army.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

THE Merry Gossip's Vindication, To the Groats worth of good Councel Declaration.

the complaint of M. Tenter-hooke the Proiector, and Sir Thomas Dodger the Patentee.186

Sir Thomas Dodgers Answer.

A Song in Praise of the Leather Bottel.196

The English Irish Souldier With his new Discipline, new Armes, old Stomacke, and new taken pillage, who had rather Eate than Fight.

A Leicester-shire Frolick; Or, The Valiant Cook-Maid.

How Jacke by playing of the Whiting got his dinner.

Epitaph on a Scholler.

My Wife will be my Master: or, The Married-mans Complaint against his unruly Wife.

Poor Robin's Prophesie, or The merry Conceited Fortune-Teller.

No Money, no Friend.

The London Ladies Vindication of Top-Knots: With the many Reasons that She shows for the Continuation of the same: As also proving Men to be as Proud as themselves.

BARNABIES SUMMONS: or, Paie your Groat in the Morning.

The WARRANT.

Dead and Alive.

The French Dancing-Master AND THE ENGLISH SOLDIER. Or, the Difference betwixt Fidling and Fighting Displayed in a Dialogue betwixt an Englishman and a Frenchman.

Song.

The Mock.

The beggars CHORUS IN THE JOVIAL CREW.

The Bad-Husbands Folly or Poverty made known.

The Brewer.234

JOAN'S Ale is New;235 or:

Nick and Froth; or The Good-fellows Complaint for want of full Measure.

A Preachment on Malt.

The Country-mans new care away.

A Song.

The Joviall Crew.244 or Beggars-Bush.

On the syllable Con.

APPENDIX. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE TO THE SOURCES WHENCE THIS BOOK WAS COMPILED.

SOME OF THE TUNES noted in this Book.

Sir Eglamore. See p. 9.

Come Lasses and Lads. See p. 23.

Sellenger's Round. See p. 68.

Dumb, Dumb, Dumb. See p. 99.

Sawney and Jockey. See p. 116.

Stingo; or, the Oyle of Barley. See p. 124, p. 276.

Pegge of Ramsay; or, Watton Town's End. See p. 142.

Upon a Summer's Day. See p. 159.

Shall I lye beyond thee? or, Lulle me beyond thee. See p. 207.

The Spinning Wheel. See p. 241.

Cuckolds all a Row. See p. 255.

The Leather Bottel. See p. 312, p. 343.

Ragged and Torn. See p. 327.

There was a Jovial Beggar. See p. 386.

Ioan's Ale is New. See p. 399.

Love will find out the way. See p. 417.

The Joviall Crew; or, A Beggar, a Beggar, a Beggar I'll be. See p. 424.

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