[Transcriber's Note: Line notes have been moved to the end of each
poem from their places on the individual pages to aid in the flow of
the poems]




The
Choise of Valentines

OR THE MERIE BALLAD OF
NASH HIS DILDO

[BY THOMAS NASH]


[_From MSS. Copies in the Inner Temple (Petyt MS. 538, Vol. 43, f.
viii., 295 b, circa 1680) and Bodleian (Rawl. MS. Poet 216, leaves
96-106, circa 1610-20) Libraries_]


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