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Comanding Asker, if it be / Pity that you faine would have, . . .
Last Line: I starve your Body, you my minde.
Poem Title: The faire Begger.
Modern Ascriptions: Richard Lovelace [Lovelace (1930)]
Attributions: Richard Lovelace [Lovelace (1649)]
Contemporary Copies
     Lovelace (1649) 131
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     Lovelace (1930) 98

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Come a brimmer (my bullies) drink whole ones or nothing, / Now healths have been voted down, . . .
Last Line: And swear our selves out on the very same score.
Poem Title: Song XXV. The Prisoners. Written when O.C. attempted to be King.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
Contemporary Copies
     Brome (1664) 94
     Brome (1668) 85
Modern Copies
     Brome (1982) 150
Notes:
      This poem appears within "Part II." of Brome (1664) and Brome (1668) .

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Come all good Citizens, rejoyce with me, / For care recals no things are past, . . .
Last Line: Our trade and liberties to maintain, [Refrain]
Poem Title: Englands rejoycing for Londons Rebuilding. To the Tune of Faire fall the Muses who in well tun'd verse, or a joyful sight to see.
Refrain:A joyful sight to see.
Contemporary Copies
     Folly in Print (1667) "76", i.e. 86
Notes:
      Poem begins with a six-line argument which commences: "Let none pass by, who come this way, / Till they have heard me sing and say, . . ."

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Come all ye widowed Muses, and put on / Your veils, and mourn in a full Helicon. . . .
See An Elegie ("Come all yee widdowed Muses, & put on . . .")

Come all yee widdowed Muses, & put on / Your veils, and mourn in a full Helicon. . . .
Last Line: For this poor stream of brin shed for thy sake.
Poem Title: An Elegie Upon my dear little friend M.I:F. Who dyed the same morning he was born. Decem 10.1654.
Modern Ascriptions: R[obert] Fletcher [Fletcher (1970)]
Attributions: R. Fletcher [R. Fletcher (1656)]
Contemporary Copies
     R. Fletcher (1656) "213", i.e. 209
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     Fletcher (1970) 200

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Come all you Caballers and Parliament Votes, / That stick'd for hanging and cutting of Throats, . . .
Last Line: Then I shall limp to Talsky much quicker, / But I first [refrain]
Poem Title: A Song of the Light of the Nation turn'd into Darkness. Tune, Cavalilly man.
Refrain: But now must be Pillor'd, and after be hang'd.
Contemporary Copies
     Loyal Songs (1685) 201

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Come all you discontented souls, / And here lay down your Loads; . . .
Last Line: You'l care no more than I do. / [Refrain]
Poem Title: Song.
Attributions: Thomas Weaver [Weaver (1654)]
Refrain: Then to Bacchus, then to Bacchus / Let's be betake us, / Whose streams will dry / The weeping eye, / And make our griefs forsake us.
Contemporary Copies
     Weaver (1654) 1

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Come all you good People that were at the Fair, / And your Ears to a Dity most mournful prepare; . . .
Last Line: Who would both our King, & His Kingdom enthrawl.
Poem Title: Oates's Lamentation. Tune, Packingtons Pound.
Contemporary Copies
     Loyal Songs (1685) 175

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Come all you Maids that lift to marry, / And you that Husbands want, . . .
Last Line: How strongly he did ---- her.
Poem Title: A Medly.
Contemporary Copies
     Sportive Wit (1656) "105", i.e. 169

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Come all you noble, you that are neat ones, / Hide Park is now both fresh and green: . . .
Last Line: As you your self expect to see.
Poem Title: A Song, called, Hide Park. The Tune, Honor invites you to delights, / Come to the Court, and be all made Knights.
Contemporary Copies
     Westminster Drollery (1671a) 76
Notes:
First line begins with number prefix: "1."

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Come and let's in solemn wise / Both addresse to sacrifice: . . .
Last Line: Reade acceptance by the smoake.
Poem Title: The Sacrifice, by way of Discourse betwixt himselfe and Julia.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 331
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     Herrick (1968)
Notes:
First line begins with speech prefix: "Herr."

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Come Anthea let us two / Go to Feast, as others do. . . .
Last Line: Then to want the Wake next Yeare.
Poem Title: The Wake.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 300
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come Anthea, know thou this, / Love at no time idle is: . . .
Last Line: Soules transfusing thus, and die.
Poem Title: To Anthea.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 277
Modern Copies
     Herrick (1968)

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Come away bring on the Bride, / And place her by her Lovers side: . . .
Last Line: Many such fair nights may fall. / [Refrain]
Poem Title: Song 203.
Refrain: Hymen fill the house with joy, / All thy sacred fires employ; / Blesse the bed with holy love, / Now fair Orb of Beauty move.
Contemporary Copies
     New Academy (1669) 217

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Come Bacchus, God of Poetry, by right; / Lend me thine influence, whilst now I write. . . .
Last Line: And henceforth reign thou God of Arms and Arts.
Poem Title: The Canary Islands. 1666. To my dearly beloved Brother, Mr. William Shipman, Merchant there.
Attributions: Thomas Shipman [Shipman (1683)]
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     Shipman (1683) 115

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Come beat Alarm, sound a Charge, / As well without as in the Verge, . . .
Last Line: Against the Rogues in Lyme Boys.
Poem Title: Monmouth Degraded, or James Scot, the little King in Lyme. Let the Thundring Canons roar.
Refrain: 'Gainst Perkin, King in Lyme Boys.
Contemporary Copies
     Loyal Songs (1685) 356

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Come beauteous Nymph, canst thou embrace / An aged, wise, majestick grace . . .
Last Line: You and I shall Lye together.
Poem Title: An old Man Courting a young Girle.
Modern Ascriptions: R[obert] Fletcher [Fletcher (1970)]
Attributions: R. Fletcher [R. Fletcher (1656)]
Contemporary Copies
     R. Fletcher (1656) "177", i.e. 174
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     Fletcher (1970) 171

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Come blithefull Neatherds, let us lay / A wager, who the best shall play, . . .
Last Line: As wearie, not o'recome by either.
Poem Title: A Beucolick, or discourse of Neatherds.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 286
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     Herrick (1968)
Notes:
First line begins with number prefix: "1."

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Come blow the Trumpets, make 'um cry tarrara; / And from hence sound as far as is * Ferrara; . . .
Last Line: May make you serious, we create you laughter.
Poem Title: Upon the light-footed, though dark Poems of the Authour, so nimble, that they skip out of the Readers sight, though he hastes never so fast to overtake them.
Attributions: Don John Puntaeus [Naps upon Parnassus (1658)]
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     Naps upon Parnassus (1658) sig. C3v

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Come boyes, leave off your toyes, / And trole about the sack. . . .
Last Line: A so they went away.
Poem Title: The Drinking Song on two Mistresses, the one furnisht with wine and the other with money. The Tune, The Gang.
Contemporary Copies
     Westminster Drollery Pt.2 (1672) 85

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Come boys, leave off your toys, / And trole about the sack. . . .
See The Drinking Song on two Mistresses, the one furnisht with wine and the other with money. ("Come boyes, leave off your toyes, . . .")

Come, bring with noise, / My merrie merrie boyes, . . .
Last Line: To fill the Paste that's a kneading.
Poem Title: Ceremonies for Christmasse.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
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     Herrick (1648) 309
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come bring your sampler, and with Art, / Draw in't a wounded Heart: . . .
Last Line: For me.
Poem Title: The Wounded Heart.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
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     Herrick (1648) 7
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     Herrick (1968) 10

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Come Brother Devils, with full Bowls / Let us refresh our thirsty Souls. . . .
Last Line: Nothing to cool their Tongues may here remain.
Poem Title: A New Song on the Hellish Popish Plot; Sung by Belzebub, at a Merry meeting of the Devils.
Contemporary Copies
     Rome Rhym'd to Death (1683) 4

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Come Buggering Oates, prepare thy Neck, / Dost mean to live for ever? . . .
Last Line: and then I'll Hang thee fairly.
Poem Title: The Kings Bench Salutation, or a Dialogue between Jack Ketch, and Titus Oates. To a new Tune.
Contemporary Copies
     Loyal Songs (1685) 367
Notes:
      The copy of this poem printed in Loyal Songs (1685) includes music.

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Come buy my new Almanacks every one, / And take the choice before they are gone, . . .
Last Line: Come buy, &c.
Poem Title: The Mercury.
Refrain:Come buy my new Almanacks, new.
Contemporary Copies
     Sportive Wit (1656) 35

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Come Caelia, fix thine eyes on mine, / And through those Crystalls our soule flitting, . . .
See SONG. ("Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine, . . .")

Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine, / And throught those Crystalls our soule flitting, . . .
Last Line: Let Eaglets, &c.
Poem Title: SONG. To a Lady not yet enjoy'd by her Husband.
Modern Ascriptions: Thomas Carew [Carew (1949)]
Attributions: Thomas Carew [Carew (1640)]
Refrain:Let Eaglets the bright Sun survey, / Though the blind Mole discerne not day:
Contemporary Copies
     Carew (1640) 61
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     Carew (1949) 36

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Come children, come, and learn your Fathers trade, / Though all else fail, here's good advantage made: . . .
Last Line: And with their Money drink, and drab, and whore.
Poem Title: The Informers Lecture To His Sons, Instructing them in the Mysteries of that Religion.
Contemporary Copies
     Rome Rhym'd to Death (1683) 98
Notes:
      Poem appears in Rome Rhym'd to Death (1683) within a section (with continuous pagination) entitled "Poems on Several Occasions Written by the E. of R. Dr. Wild and others of the Choicest Modern Wits. The Second Part."

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Come Chloris hie we to the Bower, / To sport us e're the day be done. . . .
Last Line: To keep the burning Sun away.
Poem Title: Song 230.
Contemporary Copies
     New Academy (1669) 241

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Come Chloris leave thy wand'ring Sheep, / Thou shalt more amorous Creatures keep; . . .
See Song 81. ("Come Cloris leave thy wandring Sheep, . . .")

Come Cloris hie we to the Bower, / To sport us e're the day be done. . . .
See Song 230. ("Come Chloris hie we to the Bower, . . .")

Come Cloris leave thy wandring Sheep, / Thou shalt more amorus Creatures keep; . . .
Last Line: And steal each others hearts away.
Poem Title: Song 81.
Contemporary Copies
     Windsor Drollery (1672) 54

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Come Coelia, fix thine eyes on mine, / And through those Crystalls our soule flitting, . . .
See SONG. ("Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine, . . .")

Come come away to the Tavern I say, / Whilst we have time and leisure for to think . . .
Last Line: That so they may waken our Laws.
Poem Title: Two Parliament Troopers who lay sick in Scotland: In Imitation of the Song of Bow-Bells.
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     Oxford Drollery (1671) 21

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Come, come, away! / No Delay . . .
Last Line: 'Tis all, thine own, thou shalt have standing measure.
Poem Title: Song XX,
Attributions: Henry Bold [Bold (1664)]
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     Bold (1664) 26

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Come come away, / Or let me go; . . .
Last Line: To Frost or Snow.
Poem Title: Upon a delaying Lady.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 157
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come, come away to the English wars; / A fig for our Hills and Valleys, . . .
Last Line: And the English shall say, bonny blew cap for me.
Poem Title: XI. The Scots Curanto.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
Contemporary Copies
     Brome (1664) 167
     Brome (1668) 153
Modern Copies
     Brome (1982) 211
Notes:
Variant Titles: "XI. The Scots Coranto." Brome (1668)

      This poem appears within a section of Brome (1664) and Brome (1668) entitled "BALLADS.".

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Come, come Cavaliers, / Leave your doubts, leave your fears, . . .
Last Line: From Hell, but the Divel and the Roundhead.
Poem Title: A Carol for Christmas Day.
Attributions: Thomas Weaver [Weaver (1654)]
Contemporary Copies
     Weaver (1654) 99

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Come, come, come, do you mask, do you mum / By my holy doom? what a coile is here? . . .
Last Line: And a filthy face, cry, 'Bow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Poem Title: A Song.
Refrain:Will make us sing Fa, la, la, la, la,
Contemporary Copies
     Sportive Wit (1656) "23", i.e. 87

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Come, come, great Orange, come away / On thy August Voyagio: . . .
Last Line: Couragio, &c.
Poem Title: BALLAD. To the Tune of Couragio.
Refrain: Couragio, Couragio, Couragio.
Contemporary Copies
     Collection against Popery Pt1 (1689) 12
Notes:
      Part of the section of Collection against Popery Pt1 (1689) entitled "LAMPOONS" section.

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Come, come, let us drink, / 'Tis in vain to think, . . .
Last Line: And jovially we will spend it.
Poem Title: Song V. The Trooper.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
Contemporary Copies
     Brome (1664) 60
     Brome (1668) 54
     Loyal Garland (1686) sig. A6r
Modern Copies
     Brome (1982) 121
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Song. VI. The Trouper: A pleasant Song Revived." Loyal Garland (1686)
Variant Last Lines: "And merrily we will spend it." Loyal Garland (1686)

      This poem appears within "Part II." of Brome (1664) and Brome (1668) .

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Come, come, lets Mourn; all eies, that see this Day, / Melt into Showres, and weep your selves away: . . .
Last Line: A God on earth, more then a Saint in Heaven.
Poem Title: On the Martyrdom of His late MAJESTY.
Attributions: F. Gregory [Votivum Carolo (1660)]
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     Votivum Carolo (1660) 16

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Come, come, you Ladies of the Night, / That in silent sports delight, . . .
Last Line: From Venus and her Boy shall have another.
Poem Title: Song 143.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 81

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Come Crown, with pitty, my hearty Pain / Inspire, with Courage my lusty Vein. . . .
Last Line: Take a Touch.
Poem Title: Song LVIII. A Round.
Attributions: Henry Bold [Bold (1664)]
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     Bold (1664) 92

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Come, cut again; the Game's not done, / Though strangely yet the Cards have run, . . .
Last Line: For they, the Voll will make.
Poem Title: The Plotting-Card reviv'd, or the New Cure of Forty One. Tune, I'll tell thee Dick, &c.
Contemporary Copies
     Loyal Songs (1685) 297
Notes:
      The copy of this poem printed in Loyal Songs (1685) includes music.

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Come (dearest Julia) thou and I / Will knit us in to strict atir, . . .
Last Line: Smooth at a distance, rough at hand.
Poem Title: To his Mistresse.
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     Cleaveland Revived (1659) 48

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Come do not flinch! / Quaff it about! . . .
Last Line: A Blow oth' Navel, so have at it all.
Poem Title: Song LVII. A Round.
Attributions: Henry Bold [Bold (1664)]
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     Bold (1664) 91

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Come down, and dance ye in the toyle / Of pleasures, to a Heate; . . .
Last Line: And whom she touch't, turne sweet.
Poem Title: A Song to the Maskers.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
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     Herrick (1648) 6
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     Herrick (1968) 9
Notes:
First line begins with number prefix: "1."

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Come Drawer and fill us about some wine, / Let's merrily tipple the day's our own; . . .
Last Line: And our drink shall be cordial gold.
Poem Title: Song XVIII. The Independants Resolve. Written in 1648.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
Contemporary Copies
     Brome (1664) 80
     Brome (1668) 73
     Loyal Garland (1673) sig. A5v
Modern Copies
     Brome (1982) 138
Notes:
Variant Titles: "The Independent Red-coat." Loyal Garland (1673)
Variant First Lines: "Come drawer, come fil us about more wine . . ." Loyal Garland (1673)

      This poem appears within "Part II." of Brome (1664) and Brome (1668) .

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Come drawer, come fil us about more wine / let us merrily tipple, the day is our own . . .
See Song XVIII. ("Come Drawer and fill us about some wine, . . .")

Come Drawer, some wine, / or we'l put down the Sign, . . .
See The Compounders Song. ("Come Drawers, some Wine, . . .")

Come Drawers, some Wine, / Or we'l pull down your sign; . . .
Last Line: Till the Gallow tree takes them from danger.
Poem Title: The Compounders Song.
Attributions: Thomas Weaver [Weaver (1654)]
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     Weaver (1654) 13
     Loyal Garland (1673) sig. B8v
     Loyal Garland (1686) sig. D2v
Notes:
Variant Titles: "On the Goldsmiths Committee." Loyal Garland (1673)
           "Song. XXXVII. The Royalists Resolve, made in the late Times, &c." Loyal Garland (1686)
Variant First Lines: "Come Drawer, some wine, . . ." Loyal Garland (1673); Loyal Garland (1686)
Variant Last Lines: "till the Gallows tree choaks them from danger." Loyal Garland (1673)
           "Till the Gallows tree frees them from danger." Loyal Garland (1686)

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Come, drink off your Liquor, / 'Twill make you the quicker, . . .
Last Line: Of the jolly quart Pots and the Glasses.
Poem Title: Song 82.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 55

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Come drink, we cannot want chink / Observe how my pockets do gingle. . . .
See Song 50. ("Hang sorrow cast, away care. . . .")

Come fellow, follow me, / You fairy Elves that be; . . .
Last Line: The night before where we have been.
Poem Title: Song 203.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 121

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Come fill to the brim, for the Sun does go round, / And visits the world in a day, . . .
Last Line: And ripens our joys to delight.
Poem Title: A Song.
Contemporary Copies
     New Help to Discourse (1684) 233

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Come fill us a brimmer of Sack, / It will stretch both my brains and my back, . . .
Last Line: His groat whenfoe're it was due.
Poem Title: Song 262.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 139

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Come fill with wine this lusty bowl, / 'Twil scatter sorrows from my soul, . . .
Last Line: Come then I'le sleep, and dream of drink. / [Refrain]
Poem Title: Song 127.
Refrain: We that Bacchus do adore, / Envy not the Misers store; / Nor the charms, nor sweets of Love, / Nor the state of Gods above.
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     New Academy (1669) 159

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Come follow me you Country Lasses, / And you shall see such sport as passes: . . .
Last Line: Come follow me, come follow, &c.
Poem Title: Song 164.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 93

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Come forth at last, and enter on the stage, / Great Soul of Poesie, that this purblind Age, . . .
Last Line: Thou writ'st in Characters, though with a common Letter.
Poem Title: To his Ingenuous Friend, the unknown Author of the following Poems.
Attributions: S. T. [Naps upon Parnassus (1658)]
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     Naps upon Parnassus (1658) sig. B1r

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Come from the Dungeon to the Throne, / To be a King, and straight be none. . . .
Last Line: So Beasts, &c.
Poem Title: The Priest's song while he puts on the Robes.
Attributions: William Cartwright [Cartwright (1651)]
Refrain:So beasts for Sacrifice we feed; / First they are crown'd, and then they bleed.
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     Cartwright (1651) 96
Notes:
      From The Royall Slave I.ii.

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Come Gallants, why so dull? What muddy cloud / Dwells on the eye-brows of the day? Why shroud . . .
Last Line: Then looss the floud gates Georg, wee'le pay or score.
Poem Title: May Day.
Modern Ascriptions: R[obert] Fletcher [Fletcher (1970)]
Attributions: R. Fletcher [R. Fletcher (1656)]
Contemporary Copies
     R. Fletcher (1656) "208", i.e. 204
Modern Copies
     Fletcher (1970) 196

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Come Ganemede, and fill each Glass with Wine, / Let each Muse Drink her share, then fill up mine: . . .
Last Line: But the chief Fuell's, Private Interest.
Poem Title: The Club of Royalists.
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     Loyal Poems (1685) 164

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Come gentle Love, 'tis only thou / Can'st Celidia's Beauties know; . . .
Last Line: Because he never could describe the rest.
Poem Title: The Picture. By Mr. Adams.
Attributions: Adams [Poems by Several Hands (1685)]
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     Poems by Several Hands (1685) 39

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Come Gentlemen Away with't, stand t'your Arms; / In war the valiant prove most free from harms, . . .
Last Line: Wee'l march Away with it, quoth Washington.
Poem Title: To Coll. Washington, on his word Away with't, &c. Composed in 1643.
Attributions: Thomas Jordan [Jordan (1680)]
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     Jordan (1680) sig. [][]7v

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Come, give me the Wench that is mellow; / And a fig for a Fools that are yellow; . . .
Last Line: The Horn, the Pot, or the Placker.
Poem Title: Song 216.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 131

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Come grand Apollo tune my Lyre / To harmonize in th' Muses Quire, . . .
Last Line: Another Phoenix in the Nest.
Poem Title: Upon the Nuptials of John Talbot Esquire and Mistresse Elizabeth Kite.
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     Parnassus Biceps (1656) 55

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Come, great Apollo now, and shew thy might; / Thou glorious Patron both of Wit and Light. . . .
Last Line: For some of them to give a Crown to you.
Poem Title: The New Year's Gift. 1674. To the honourable Mrs. Chaworth.
Attributions: Thomas Shipman [Shipman (1683)]
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     Shipman (1683) 145

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Come guard this night the Christmas-Pie, / That the Thiefe, though ne'r so slie, . . .
Last Line: To watch it.
Poem Title: Christmasse-Eve, another Ceremonie.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 310
Modern Copies
     Herrick (1968)

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Come hang up your care, and cast away your sorrow; / Drink on, hee's a sot that e're thinks of tomorrow: . . .
Last Line: But in the damp place where the glass goes not round.
Poem Title: A Song.
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     Westminster Drollery Pt.2 (1672) 77

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Come hither Apollo's bouncing Girle, / And in a whole Hippocrene of Sherry . . .
Last Line: For if ever I have a man Square-cap for me.
Poem Title: Square-Cap.
Modern Ascriptions: John Cleveland [Cleveland (1967)]
Refrain:Shee, she is my Mistriss, her Suiters are many, / But shee'l have a Square-cap if ere she have any.
Contemporary Copies
     Cleveland (1647g) 7
     Cleveland (1647h) 7
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     Cleveland (1967) 43

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Come hither Beauty, what sad dumpe hath got / The upper hand of thy choice thoughts, what blot . . .
Last Line: Goe mourne with vertue and your beauty blast.
Poem Title: A Morall Eclogue presented by Vertue, Wealth, and Beauty.
Attributions: Thomas Jordan [Jordan (1637)]
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     Jordan (1637) 35
Notes:
First line begins with speech prefix: "Wealth."

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Come hither my dearest, come hither to me, / And I will be so loving to thee, . . .
Last Line: Or else for evermore adieu.
Poem Title: The wooing Gallant a Song. Tune, Mrs. Mary's Delight.
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     Oxford Drollery (1671) 44
     Windsor Drollery (1672) 18
     Grammatical Drollery (1682) 80
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Song 29." Windsor Drollery (1672)
           "The Wooing Gallant. A SONG." Grammatical Drollery (1682)

      This poem appears in Grammatical Drollery (1682) within a section entitled "POEMS and SONGS."

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Come hither, reader, my gentle friend! / And here behold a cobler's end. . . .
Last Line: The man that made him soules at will.
Poem Title: 67. On a Cobler.
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     Wits Recreations (1640) sig. 2B4v
Notes:
      Appears in Wits Recreations (1640) within the section entitled "EPITAPHS".

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Come hither sweet Melancholly, / Now tis time to be Jolly, . . .
Last Line: Then too late thou wilt be sorry.
Poem Title: Song 180.
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     New Academy (1669) 193

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Come hither you to whom the breath / Of Musique is a second Death; . . .
Last Line: The other world may better furnish you.
Poem Title: A Banquet of Discord, dish'd up and dedicated to all lovers of Confusion, and contemners of Concord.
Attributions: Thomas Jordan [Jordan (1680)]
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     Jordan (1680) sig. [][]2r

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Come hither zealous brothers, / And leave your disputation: . . .
Last Line: There let him drink old Sack old Sack.
Poem Title: A Song in praise of noble Liqour.
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     Wit and Drollery (1661) 20

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Come in, my Amyntas, at lenght let us prove / The various Delights and Enjoyments of Love: . . .
Last Line: That our last is our sweetest and pleasantest Breath.
Poem Title: Invitation to Enjoyment. The Newest Song.
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     New Court Songs (1672) 73

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Come Jack, let's drinke a pot of ale, / And I shall tell Thee such a Tale . . .
Last Line: More Faithful Friends then they.
Poem Title: The Cavalier's Complaint. To the Tune of, I'll tell Thee Dick, &c.
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      The Cavalier's Complaint. To the Tune of, I'll tell Thee Dick, &c. ( London ) [brs.]
      The Cavalier's Complaint. To the tune of, I'le tell thee Dick, &c. This is the Constant note I'le sing. / I have been Faithfull to the KING, / And so, shall Live and Dye. ( London: Printed for N. Butter, dwelling in Cursitors Alley ) [brs.]
      The Cavaleers Complaint. To the Tune of, I'll tell Thee Dick, &c. ( London, Printed for Robert Crofts at the Crown in Chancery lane. ) [brs.]
     New Academy (1669) 238
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Song 226." New Academy (1669)

     For a response to this poem, see The Cavaliers Comfort; ("Cheer up your hearts, and be not afraid, . . .")
      See also An Echo in Answer to the Cavaliers Complaint. ("I Marvell Dick, That having been . . .")
      The broadside copy The Cavalier's Complaint. To the tune of, I'le tell thee Dick, &c. This is the Constant note I'le sing. / I have been Faithfull to the KING, / And so, shall Live and Dye. London: Printed for N. Butter, dwelling in Cursitors Alley (1660) [Wing C1570] is prefaced with three lines directly following the title: "This is the Constant note I'le sing. / I have been Faithfull to the KING, / And so, shall Live and Dye."

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Come Julia, come! let's once disbody, what, / Strait matter ties to this, and not to that, . . .
Last Line: But tedious durance in eternity.
Poem Title: To Cloris a Rapture.
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     Cleaveland Revived (1659) 18

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Come Kiss me (sweet) let's banquet on delight! / And teach Love, how to surfet! Kiss agen! . . .
Last Line: Give me not these alone, but give me all.
Poem Title: Song XXIV.
Attributions: Henry Bold [Bold (1664)]
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     Bold (1664) 31

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Come Ladd here's a health to thy Love / Do thou drink another to mine, . . .
See Song 50. ("Hang sorrow cast, away care. . . .")

Come Lads and Lasses, each one that passes, / Dance a round on the ground . . .
Last Line: Our chiefest pleasure. [Refrain]
Poem Title: A Rural Song.
Refrain:For the blind Boy Love was caught and betray'd / In the Trap that was laid, / For the poor silly Maid.
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     Westminster Drollery (1671a) 114
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First line begins with number prefix: "1."

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Come lasses and ladds, / Take leave of your Dadds, . . .
Last Line: And each a 2 pence, 2 pence, a pence gave him and went away.
Poem Title: The Rurall Dance about the May-pole. The Tune, the first Figure dance at Mr. Young's Ball in May 1671.
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     Westminster Drollery Pt.2 (1672) 80

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Come, lay by your Cares, and hang up your Sorrow; / Drink on, he's a Sot that e're thinks of tomorrow. . . .
Last Line: But in the damn'd Place where the Glass goes not round.
Poem Title: A Catch.
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     New Court Songs (1672) 92
Notes:
      From Thomas Shadwell's The Miser.

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Come leave that saucy way / Of baiting those that pay . . .
Last Line: Since braver theam no Phoebus ever saw.
Poem Title: Against BEN: JOHNSON.
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     Parnassus Biceps (1656) 154

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Come, leave this loathed Country-life, and then / Grow up to be a Roman Citizen. . . .
Last Line: Though Granges do not love thee, Cities shall.
Poem Title: Upon himself.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
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     Herrick (1648) 199
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come leave thy care, and love thy friend; / Live freely, don't dispair, . . .
Last Line: Nor change lives with a King.
Poem Title: Song XXIX. The Antipolititian.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
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     Brome (1664) 100
     Brome (1668) 91
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     Brome (1982) 155
Notes:
      This poem appears within "Part II." of Brome (1664) and Brome (1668) .

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Come let the State stay, / And drinke away, . . .
Last Line: The world was his owne by good drinking.
Poem Title: [Untitled]
Attributions: Sir John Suckling [Suckling (1646a)]
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     Suckling (1646a) "16", i.e. 304
Notes:
      From The Tragedy of Brennoralt.

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Come let us be Joyful and Sing, / Great Britain will soon be at rest: . . .
Last Line: Then surely we'r all Blest, since, [refrain].
Poem Title: The Tories Triumph, or the Downfall of the Whigs.
Refrain: To see none so Happy as We.
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     Loyal Songs (1685) 349

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Come let us be friends, and most friendly agree, / For the Pimp, the Punck, & the Doctor are three, . . .
Last Line: The Doctor new Vamps, and Upsets her again.
Poem Title: Song 129.
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     New Academy (1669) 160
     Windsor Drollery (1672) 133
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Song 254." Windsor Drollery (1672)

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Come let us be merry, / Drink Claret and Sherry, . . .
Last Line: We should suddenly see [Refrain].
Poem Title: X. Written in 1648.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
Refrain: Then the Roundheads and Cavies agree.
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     Brome (1664) 165
     Brome (1668) 151
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     Brome (1982) 209
Notes:
      This poem appears within a section of Brome (1664) and Brome (1668) entitled "BALLADS.".

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Come, let us laugh, let us drink, let us sing, / The Winter is with us as good as the Spring; . . .
Last Line: Conferring our notes together.
Poem Title: Song 244.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 126

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Come lets drink, the time invites, / winter and cold weather, . . .
Last Line: to king, and every Member.
Poem Title: The new Droll.
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     Loyal Garland (1673) sig. B6r
     Loyal Garland (1686) sig. C8v
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Song. XXXV. The New Droll." Loyal Garland (1686)

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Come let's purge our brains, / from Ale and Grains, . . .
Last Line: Canary's Coronation.
Poem Title: Canary's Coronation.
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     Loyal Garland (1673) sig. E3r
     Loyal Garland (1686) sig. F1r
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Song. LVIII. Canary's Coronation." Loyal Garland (1686)

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Come list and hark; / The bell doth toul . . .
See A Knell. ("Gome list and hark; . . .")

Come listen a while (tho' the weather be cold) / In your Pockets and Plackets your hand you may hold. . . .
Last Line: It is forty to one they had come to less harm.
Poem Title: Blanket Fair, or the History of Temple-street. Being a Relation of the merry Pranks plaid on the River of Thames during the great Frost. Tune Packingtons Pound.
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     Loyal Songs (1685) 49

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Come listen, ye Whigs, to my pitiful moan, / All you that have Ears, when the Dr. has none; . . .
Last Line: To think how they'll truss up the Saviour o'th' Nation.
Poem Title: The Salamanca Doctor's Farewell over Titus's Exaltar to the Pillory, upon his Conviction of Perjury To the Tune of, Packinton's Pound.
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     Loyal Songs (1685) 228
Notes:
      The copy of this poem printed in Loyal Songs (1685) includes music.

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Come little Infant, Love me now, / While thine unsuspected years . . .
Last Line: And we both shall Monarchs prove.
Poem Title: Young Love.
Modern Ascriptions: Andrew Marvell [Marvell (1971)]
Attributions: Andrew Marvell [Marvell (1681)]
Contemporary Copies
     Marvell (1681) 17
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     Marvell (1971)

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Come live with me, and be my Whore, / And we will beg from door to door, . . .
Last Line: And leave our old ones for a pledge.
Poem Title: The Wooing Rogue. The Tune is, My Freedom is all my joy.
Refrain: Thou shalt turn Whore and I'le turn Thief. / Thou shalt turn Whore and I'le turn Thief.
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     Westminster Drollery (1671a) 17
     Windsor Drollery (1672) 153
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Song 279. On a Rogue." Windsor Drollery (1672)

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Come make a good Toast, and stir up the fire, / And fill the great Tankard of what we admire: . . .
Last Line: To his honest Lord Mayor, & all other old Christians; / But guard us, good Lord, from these whining Philistins.
Poem Title: The Pot Companions, or Drinking and Smoaking prefer'd before Caballing and Plotting. Thus all day long we're folick and gay, &c.
Refrain: And here let us sit, like honest brave Fellows, / That neither are Tories nor Whigs in an Alehouse.
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     Loyal Songs (1685) 310

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Come murdering Miles, where's your Sedan? / Or where's the Man you had it from? . . .
Last Line: For Circumstance I am under.
Poem Title: A Dialogue between Bowman the Tory, and Prance the Runagado. A new Song. To the Tune of, Hark, the Thundring Canons roar.
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     Loyal Songs (1685) 266
Notes:
      The copy of this poem printed in Loyal Songs (1685) includes music.

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Come my bully-rock away, / We do wast this drinking day, . . .
Last Line: Whilst we good White or Clarret see.
Poem Title: SONG. 4. A Drunken Mock, to come away my Daphne.
Refrain:We'l Drink and Sleep, and then we'l snore, / That Bacchus he, / May daily see, / The bubbing Glee, / 'Twixt thee and me, / And never will give o're, / Whilst we good White or Clarret see,
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     Mock Songs (1675) 6
     Grammatical Drollery (1682) 79
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Another Drunken Mock to Come my Daphne." Grammatical Drollery (1682)
Variant Last Lines: "Whilst we good Sack or Claret see." Grammatical Drollery (1682)

      This poem appears in Grammatical Drollery (1682) within a section entitled "POEMS and SONGS."

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Come my Daphne, come away, / We do waste the Chrystal day: . . .
Last Line: When they embrace a deitie
Poem Title: Song 191.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 115
Notes:
First line begins with speech prefix: "Streph. [Strephon]"

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Come my dirty pug away / What the pox d'ye mean to stay: . . .
See A Mock-song to Come my Daphny. ("Come my durty pug away . . .")

Come my durty pug away / What the pox de'e mean to stay: . . .
Last Line: But never will deplore my sad, but fatal destiny.
Poem Title: A Mock-song to Come my Daphny.
Contemporary Copies
     Oxford Drollery. (1671) 65
     Grammatical Drollery (1682) 78
Notes:
Variant Titles: "A Mock Song to Come my Daphne." Grammatical Drollery (1682)
Variant Last Lines: "My sad, but fatal Destinie." Grammatical Drollery (1682)

      This poem appears in Grammatical Drollery (1682) within a section entitled "POEMS and SONGS."

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Come my Honey, my Douse, my Dell, my Dear, / We have neither House nor Land, yet never want good cheer. . . .
Last Line: Then live with us &c.
Poem Title: Song 138.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) "144", i.e., 121
Notes:
      The poem has been misnumbered "Song 138" rather than "238".

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Come my Lads that love Canary, / Let us have a brisk Figary, . . .
Last Line: The longer time he did tarry here.
Poem Title: SONG 41. A Drinking Song.
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     Mock Songs (1675) 103

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Come my Molly, / Let's be jolly, / Since we are gotten together, my Dear, . . .
Last Line: We Women must yeild to our Fate.
Poem Title: SONG 51. A Dialogue between a Gallant, and his Mistriss To the Tune: Of the new French Dance called Backnall
Contemporary Copies
     Mock Songs (1675) 123
Notes:
First line begins with speech prefix: "Man."

      Cf. A Song. ("Come my Molly, Let us be jolly, . . .") , a song which seems, however, unrelated to this one.

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Come my Molly, Let us be jolly, / Now we are both come hither; . . .
Last Line: I cannot hold out a minute.
Poem Title: A Song. Tune, Thomas I cannot.
Refrain: My Mother doth tell me I mun not, I mun not, / My Mother doth tell me I mun not.
Contemporary Copies
     Oxford Drollery (1671) 38
     Grammatical Drollery (1682) 75
Notes:
Variant Titles: "A Song," Grammatical Drollery (1682)
Variant Last Lines: "I cannot hold out a minit." Grammatical Drollery (1682)

      Cf. SONG 51. ("Come my Molly, . . .") , a song which seems, however, unrelated to this one.
      This poem appears in Grammatical Drollery (1682) within a section entitled "POEMS and SONGS."

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Come, my Olympia, we'll consume / Our Joys no more at this low rate; . . .
Last Line: And in this love resolve to die.
Poem Title: Loves Contentment.
Contemporary Copies
     New Collection (1674) 43

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Come my Phillis, let us improve, / Both our joy of equal love, . . .
Last Line: Declare thy youth and fire.
Poem Title: A Song to a Scotish tune.
Contemporary Copies
     Covent Garden Drolery (1672a) 93

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Come my Phyllis, let us improve, / Both our joy of equal love, . . .
See A Song to a Scotish tune. ("Come my Phillis, let us improve, . . .")

Come my pretty Nan, I must be the man / That must enjoy thee, . . .
Last Line: Till in the Arms of a Friend it expire.
Poem Title: The Confident Gallant with her answer. Tune.
Contemporary Copies
     Oxford Drollery (1671) 41
Notes:
     For a response to this poem, see Her Answer. ("Prethee friend be gone, for I will ha' none . . .")

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Come my sure drinking Blades! / Whose never known Trades, . . .
Last Line: And busi'd, in Pinning the Basket. / [Refrain]
Poem Title: Song XLIII.
Attributions: Henry Bold [Bold (1664)]
Refrain: It isWine, / That's divine, / Must refine, / Our dull Souls: / There's no mirth, /In the Earth, / Where's a Dearth, / Of the Bowls.
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     Bold (1664) 61

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Come my sweet, whiles every strayin / Calls our Souls into the Eare, . . .
Last Line: Scorning the forgetfull Lake.
Poem Title: Boy sings.
Attributions: William Cartwright [Cartwright (1651)]
Contemporary Copies
     Cartwright (1651) 103
Notes:
      From The Royall Slave II.iii.

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Come my White head, let our Muses / Vent no spleen against abuses, . . .
Last Line: Lets crave a pardon from our head.
Poem Title: The Red head and the White.
Contemporary Copies
     Choyce Drollery (1656) 10

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Come near my lusty Lovers, / Give ear unto my ditty, . . .
See The description of a rare beauty of a Lovers Fancy. ("Come neer my lusty Lovers, . . .")

Come neer my lusty Lovers, / Give ear unto my ditty, . . .
Last Line: Peform'd a lovers duty.
Poem Title: The description of a rare beauty of a Lovers Fancy. To an old Tune.
Contemporary Copies
     Folly in Print (1667) "82", i.e. 92
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     For a response to this poem, see Her Ingenious her Answer so modestly delivered. ("Your verses I receiv'd, . . .")
      The poem begins with a four-line argument, that commences: " If any man doe want a Wife, / And would secure her Honesty,. . ."

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Come never coy it so, thou art not fair / Skin deep perfection, or suppose you were, . . .
Last Line: Hadst thou been kind, how high could I have plac'd thee.
Poem Title: To a Coy Mistress.
Contemporary Copies
     Oxford Drollery (1671) 116

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Come noble Nymphs, and do not hide / The joyes for which you so provide, . . .
Last Line: Do promise you will do't.
Poem Title: An ODE.
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     Sportive Wit (1656) "49", i.e. 113

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Come now let's rejoyce, and the City Bells ring, / And the Bonefires kindle, while unto the King . . .
Last Line: Against all Fanaticks, when Great James commands.
Poem Title: A Congratulation on the happy Discovery of the Hellish Fanatick Plot. To the Tune of, Now, now the Fight's done, &c.
Contemporary Copies
     Loyal Songs (1685) 62
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      Includes an "EPILOGUE" that begins "With Wine of all sorts let the Conduits run free, / And each true heart drink the Kings health on his knee. . ."
      The copy of this poem printed in Loyal Songs (1685) includes music.

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Come, o come, I brook no stay: / He doth not love that can delay. . . .
Last Line: But sprightfull kisses strike the Hours.
Poem Title: A Song within.
Attributions: William Cartwright [Cartwright (1651)]
Contemporary Copies
     Cartwright (1651) "45", i.e. 197
     Westminster Drollery Pt.2 (1672) 79
Notes:
First line begins with number prefix: "1."

Variant Titles: "An Invitation to enjoyment." Westminster Drollery Pt.2 (1672)

      From The Ordinary III.iii.

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Come on brave spirit; help me thy name to dress, / Lest I blaspheme thee with my home-spun verse. . . .
Last Line: Since Learning's Body is condens'd in Thee.
Poem Title: Upon Mr. John Cleeveland, my quondam Chamber-fellow.
Contemporary Copies
     Naps upon Parnassus (1658) sig. "E1r", i.e. F1r
Notes:
First line begins with salutation: "Dear Jack!"

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Come on ye Critticks! find one fault who dare, / For read it backward, like a Witches I'ray'r. . . .
Last Line: Did ever Libell, yet so sharply bite?
Poem Title: On Mr. E---- H---- upon his B---- P-----
Modern Ascriptions: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset [Dorset (1979)]
Attributions: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester [Rochester (1680a)]
Contemporary Copies
     Rochester (1680a) 88
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     Dorset (1979)

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Come on ye Scribling Rebels of the Age, / Come on I say, advance upon the Stage; . . .
Last Line: Thy Rogueship made St. Dick at Tyburn Tree.
Poem Title: Scandal Proof, or an Heroick Poem On the Renowned Champions of the Good Old Cause, Impudent Dick Janeway, and the rest of the Factious Tribe.
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     Loyal Poems and Satyrs (1685) 48

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Come Painter take a Prospect from this Hill, / And on a well-spread Canvas shew thy Skill: . . .
Last Line: And then dye by Suffocation.
Poem Title: The Hierogliphick.
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     Collection against Popery Pt1 (1689) 7
     Muses Farewel (1689) 58
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      Part of the section of Collection against Popery Pt1 (1689) entitled "LAMPOONS."

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Come, pass about the bowl to me, / A health to our distressed King; . . .
Last Line: Let's tipple round; and so 'tis here.
Poem Title: Song I. The Royalist. Written in 1646.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
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     Brome (1664) 55
     Brome (1668) 50
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     Brome (1982) 117
Notes:
      This poem appears within "Part II." of Brome (1664) and Brome (1668) .

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Come, Philomel, thou messenger of Spring; / Tune thy more pleasing notes, and to us sing; . . .
Last Line: As they me teach, know, Adrastina's here.
Poem Title: Song 3. ex eadem.
Contemporary Copies
     Card of Courtship (1653) 157

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Come Poetry, and with thee bring along / A rich and painted throng . . .
Last Line: To sing my words, when She but speaks Her own!
Poem Title: An Ode Written by Mr. Abraham Cowley For Her Majesty, Queen to King Charles I.
Attributions: Abraham Cowley [Poems by Several Hands (1685)]
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     Poems by Several Hands (1685) 1

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Come prethee leave this reading; let me hear / Some jests, or wanton tales, then shall my ear . . .
Last Line: That doth not appertain to Iesabel.
Poem Title: A Dialogue betwixt the Flesh; and the Spirit.
Attributions: Thomas Jordan [Jordan (1660a)]
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     Jordan (1660a) sig. §5v
Notes:
First line begins with speech prefix: "Fle."

      See also Spirit alone. ("Thus am I daily harried to and fro, . . .")

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Come preythee leave this reading; let me hear / Some jests, or wanton tales, then shall my ear . . .
See A Dialogue betwixt the Flesh; and the Spirit. ("Come prethee leave this reading; let me hear . . .")

Come prithee leave this reading; let me hear / Some jests, or wanton tales, then shall my ear . . .
See A Dialogue betwixt the Flesh; and the Spirit. ("Come prethee leave this reading; let me hear . . .")

Come prythee leave this reading; let me hear / Some jests, or wanton tales, then shall my ear . . .
See A Dialogue betwixt the Flesh; and the Spirit. ("Come prethee leave this reading; let me hear . . .")

Come saddest thoughts possess my heart, / And in my grief come bear a part; . . .
Last Line: He that indur'd Loves Martyrdom.
Poem Title: Song.
Modern Ascriptions: Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke [Pembroke (1959)]
Attributions: William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke [Pembroke (1660)]
Contemporary Copies
     Pembroke (1660) 102
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     Pembroke (1959) 102
Notes:
      Poem is headed "P" in Pembroke (1660) signifying Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.

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Come Shepherds come, / Come away without delay, . . .
Last Line: If you crave it.
Poem Title: Song 187.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 113

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Come sigh no more, but kiss again, / These troubles shall never trouble me; . . .
Last Line: And both shall be conquer'd, yet not run away.
Poem Title: Song XXIV. To his Mistress affrighted in the wars.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
Contemporary Copies
     Brome (1664) 30
     Brome (1668) 27
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     Brome (1982) 94

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Come Silvia, freely let's enjoy / Loves chiefest sweets; for being coy, . . .
See A Dialogue. ("Come Sylvia, freely let's enjoy . . .")

Come sit we by the fires side; / And roundly drinke we here; . . .
Last Line: And noses tann'd with Beere.
Poem Title: The Coblers Catch.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 257
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come sit we under yonder Tree, / Where merry as the Maids we'l be. . . .
Last Line: A kiss to each; and so we'l end.
Poem Title: To the Maids to walke abroad.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 252
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come, skilfull Lupo, now, and take / Thy Bice, thy Umber, Pink, and Lake; . . .
Last Line: Sho'd by his breathing, poyson thee.
Poem Title: To the Painter, to draw him a Picture.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 40
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     Herrick (1968) 38

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Come smooth off your Liquor! / It makes th' Wit quicker, . . .
Last Line: Shall have all the rest, in his Codpeice.
Poem Title: Song LV. A Round.
Attributions: Henry Bold [Bold (1664)]
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     Bold (1664) 89

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Come Sons of Summer, by whose toile, / We are the Lords of Wine and Oile: . . .
Last Line: But for to make it spring againe.
Poem Title: The Hock-cart, or Harvest home: To the Right Honourable, Mildmay, Earle of Westmorland.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 113
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come, Sweet, and draw the Curtain round, / That we may meet where pleasures do abound; . . .
Last Line: Sweet, agree, agree.
Poem Title: A SONG.
Contemporary Copies
     Sportive Wit (1656) sig. c1r

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Come Sylvia, freely let's enjoy / Loves chiefest sweets; for being coy, . . .
Last Line: Thou wilt, that thou no sooner didst consent
Poem Title: A Dialogue.
Attributions: Thomas Weaver [Weaver (1654)]
Refrain: What e're the rigid Sages of old time / Did love and practice most, they made a crime / To th' rude vulgar, and did thus devise, / That no man should be happy but the wise,
Contemporary Copies
     Weaver (1654) 90
Notes:
First line begins with speech prefix: "Thir."
Last line begins with speech prefix: "Thi."

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Come then, and like two Doves with silv'rie wings, / Let our soules flie to'th'shades, where ever springs . . .
Last Line: But Night determines here, Away.
Poem Title: The Apparition of his Mistresse calling him to Elizium. Desunt nonnulla-----
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
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     Herrick (1648) 240
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come then, lets kisse, let us embrace each other, / Till we have found a babe, faire (like the mother.) . . .
See To Leda his coy Bride, on the Bridall Night. ("Why art thou coy (my Leda) ar't not mine? . . .")

Come thou fairest master-peece, / Of natures work, her golden fleece, . . .
Last Line: You will not for your losse once grieve.
Poem Title: To a young Mayd.
Contemporary Copies
     Academy of Complements (1640) 174

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Come thou not neere those men, who are like Bread / O're-leven'd; or like Cheese o're-renetted. . . .
Last Line: O're-leven'd; or like Cheese o're-renetted.
Poem Title: To his Booke.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 3
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     Herrick (1968) 7

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Come thou, who art the Wine, and wit / Of all I've writ: . . .
Last Line: And then meet here.
Poem Title: His Winding-sheet.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 220
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come Tom let's drink a rousing glass, / Ud's niggs ne're stir, is but an Ass, . . .
See A CATCH ("Come Tom let's drink a rowsing glass, . . .")

Come Tom let's drink a rowsing glass, / Ud's niggs ne're stirre, is but an Asse, . . .
Last Line: Let him be hang'd, who cares not for't.
Poem Title: A CATCH , To the Tune of, Old Poets Hipocrene Admire.
Contemporary Copies
     Folly in Print (1667) 52
Notes:
      See also Another to the same Tune. ("Tis much / The Dutch . . .") and Another to the same Tune. ("For Wine / That's fine . . .")

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Come, Tragick Muse, finde me one Spring through all / Parnassus Rise, womb swell'd with bitter'st Gall, . . .
Last Line: By writing Dead my Self, then This to th' Life.
Poem Title: Upon the much lamented Departure of the right Hopeful, and truly Noble, Henry Lord Hastings, Son and Heir to the Right Honorable, Ferdinando Earl of Huntingdon.
Attributions: John Rosse [Lachrymae Musarum (1650)]
Contemporary Copies
     Lachrymae Musarum (1650) 62
Notes:
      Poem concludes with an "Epitaph": "Here lies our Ages Paramont; the Store/ Of Albions shame, because it mourns no more. / And since the Fate is so, if, for his fall / We cannot weep enough, our Children shall"

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Come troll it away, / We'll drink up the Day, . . .
See A Song. ("Come trowl it away, . . .")

Come trowl it away, / We'l drink up the Day, . . .
Last Line: But small beer wou'd make us all asses.
Poem Title: A Song.
Contemporary Copies
     New Help to Discourse (1684) 230

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Come with the Spring-time, forth Fair Maid, and be / This year again, the medows Deity. . . .
Last Line: Cherrish the cheek, but make none blush at all.
Poem Title: The meddow verse or Aniversary to Mistris Bridget Lowman.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
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     Herrick (1648) 161
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     Herrick (1968)

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Come ye Termagnant Turks, / If your Bassa dares land ye, . . .
Last Line: They shall water at Chios.
Poem Title: Song 175.
Contemporary Copies
     Windsor Drollery (1672) 103

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Come your Ale is a liquor, / Drawes thicker and thicker, . . .
Last Line: And Apollo himselfe to a Dray-man.
Poem Title: Song against Ale.
Attributions: Martin Lluelyn [Lluelyn (1646)]
Contemporary Copies
     Lluelyn (1646) 63

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Come your waies / Bonny Boyes . . .
Last Line: Now every man's a beggar.
Poem Title: Song II. The Commoners. Written in 1645. to the Club men.
Modern Ascriptions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1982)]
Attributions: Alexander Brome [Brome (1664); Brome (1668)]
Contemporary Copies
     Brome (1664) 56
     Brome (1668) 51
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     Brome (1982) 118
Notes:
Variant First Lines: "Come your wayes . . ." Brome (1668)

      This poem appears within "Part II." of Brome (1664) and Brome (1668) .

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Come your wayes / Bonny Boys . . .
See Song II. ("Come your waies . . .")

Come your ways / Bonny Boys . . .
See Song II. ("Come your waies . . .")

Comely Acts well; and when he speaks his part, / He doth it with the sweetest tones of Art: . . .
Last Line: More curst for singing out of tune then he.
Poem Title: Upon Comely a good speaker but an ill singer, Epig.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 313
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     Herrick (1968)

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Comely Swain, why sit'st thou so? / Fala, la, fa, la, la, &c. . . .
Last Line: Fa, la, la, fa, la, la, &c.
Poem Title: Song 56.
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     Windsor Drollery (1672) 39

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Command the Roofe great Genius, and from thence / Into this house powre downe thy influence, . . .
Last Line: Grow old with time, but yet keep weather-proofe.
Poem Title: To the Genius of his house.
Modern Ascriptions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1968)]
Attributions: Robert Herrick [Herrick (1648)]
Contemporary Copies
     Herrick (1648) 289
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     Herrick (1968)

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Commanding Asker, if it be / Pity that you fain would have, . . .
See The faire Begger. ("Comanding Asker, if it be . . .")

Commit thy ship unto the winde, / But not thy faith to woman kind, . . .
Last Line: To make a good thing of a bad.
Poem Title: 168 Of women.
Contemporary Copies
     Wits Recreations (1640) sig. E4v
     New Academy (1669) 137
Notes:
Variant Titles: "Song 88." New Academy (1669)

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Communem poscunt luctum communia damna, / Hic non ad planctus gens erit una satis; . . .
Last Line: Nunc lacrymarum etiam colligat Oceanus.
Poem Title: [Untitled]
Attributions: Thomas Glynne [Epicedia Academiae Oxoniensis (1661)]
Contemporary Copies
     Epicedia Academiae Oxoniensis (1661) sig. F3v

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Compare the Bramble to the stately Pine; / The fruitless Thistle to the vertuous Vine; . . .
Last Line: In that unequal height, Superlative.
Poem Title: Another Epigram. To his Superlative Mistris.
Attributions: Henry Bold [Bold (1657)]
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     Bold (1657) 25

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Comspexit CAROLUS quas aut Germania Nymphas / Praedicat, aut venerum Gallia dives alit; . . .
Last Line: Est Hominum, Sensu; Mente probare, Dei est.
Poem Title: [Untitled]
Attributions: Robert Grove [Domiduca Oxoniensis (1662)]
Contemporary Copies
     Domiduca Oxoniensis (1662) sig. I3v

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Comus nor Momus, now must be my Theam, / My Muse must mourn in a more serious strein. . . .
Last Line: The Doctor hoal'd, with the Badger at his back.
Poem Title: The Badger in the Fox-Trap, or a Satyr upon Satyrs.
Contemporary Copies
     Loyal Poems (1685) 61

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