Abstract

Contents: Acknowledgments vii; Prologue 1; Prop Rockery 5; [In thy dumb action will I be as perfect] 7; [All with me’s meet that I can fashion fit] 8; And So It Was Done Riding the Horse Backward 9; Troupe Song 10; [Like boys unto a muss kings would start forth] 11; [Time and the hour runs through the roughest day] 13; [So that they seeme, and covet not to be] 14; [Accoutred as I was I plungèd in] 17; Jib Riddle 18; Tract Song 20; Mare’s Nest 21; [The world is deceived with ornament] 24; Bell, Book, and Candle 25; [The lady stirs] 26; The Suit, a Letter 28; Rose 29; Superstition 30; Siren Song 33; A Tundra of Misapplications 34; [The nature of bad news infects the teller] 36; Timbered 37; To Pasture 38; Dispatch: At a Limp, Not at a Gallop 39; Stuffed and Strung Up for the Birds 40; [How easy is a bush supposed a bear] 41; Aubade 42; Cloudland 43; Stock, Still 45; [If they would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome] 49; Monarchy 50; [Yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow] 51; Solar Complaint 52; Lunar Complaint 53; [Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight] 54; King of the Boars 55; Two-Bit Song 56; [But yet I run before my horse to market] 57; [As I have done the rest of my misleaders] 58;Prop Rockery Reprised 61; Albatross 62; Accumulation Song 63; A Final Procession for the Pattern Maker 64; The Songless Ha-Ha 65; [I was not made a horse] 66; [I can drink with any tinker] 68; [The juggler casteth a mist to work the closer] 69; Ballad of the Face in the Rock 70; [Let me be thought too busy in my fears] 72; Finale 73; Notes 75

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