Front matter
Reading edition
Choyce Drollery.
1661. Vide p. 107.
J. W. Ebsworth sc. 1876
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.
