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HEN the four “Lovers of Wit” collected these Jovial Poems, Merry Songs, and Witty Drolleries, not forgetting what are rightly called pleasant Catches, and produced them as “Merry Drollery” in 1661, they gave us no more of preface or advertisement than the few lines following Rh