Additional Notes
to the
Westminster Drolleries.
Our next book will contain fresh Title-pages to the series of Drolleries, completed in three volumes. Meanwhile, let readers accept the following, for Corrections and Additions to the Appendix of Westminster Drollery:—
Page 10. Wert thou much fairer than thou art is by “M. W. M.,” before 1651, as it was answered in that year by Thomas Stanley, in a Song beginning “Wert thou by all affections sought.”
— 13. Never perswade me to’t. Also in Playford’s Select Ayres, 1652, p. 30, with music by Dr. Colman; where is O fain would I, &c., p. 9.
— 17. Cellamina, of my heart. By John Dryden, same date, 1671, in “An Evening’s Love,” Act i.
— 20. Was ever man so vex'd, &c. Given, with the music, in Wit & Mirth, 1700, ii. 152; Pills, iv. 155.
— 28. Line 30. Note on Sauncing bell. See also The Second Maiden’s Tragedy, 1611, Act ii. Sc. 2,—“That drowns a saunce bell.”
— 30. (Additional.) The two poems On a Great Heat, and On a Mighty Rain, beginning respectively “I formerly in Countreys, &c., and “Heaven did not Weep,” &c., West. Droll., i. 67, 68, are by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, in his Comedy of “The Country Captain,” 1649.
— 30. Madam, I cannot Court, &c. The original poem, of which this is the middle verse (modernized), is attributed to no less a poet than Christopher Marlow (who died, May, 1593), although marked “Ignoto.” Alexander Dyce gives it in both editions of that dramatist, and another of our best modern editors, Colonel Francis Cunningham, inserts it in his “Mermaid Edition,” p. 271. We transcribe the rare original, printed “At Middleborugh,” n.d., about 1597, at end of the earliest edition of “Epigrammes and Elegies. By I. D[avies]. and C. M[arlow].” It begins:—
