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And when you well reckoned have
What kisses you your sweethearts gave,
Take them all again, and more,
It will never make them poor.
Then, &c.
What kisses you your sweethearts gave,
Take them all again, and more,
It will never make them poor.
Then, &c.
When you thus have spent the time
Till the day be past its prime,
To your beds repaire at night,
And dream there of your day's delight.
Then to the May-pole come away,
For it is now a holiday.
Till the day be past its prime,
To your beds repaire at night,
And dream there of your day's delight.
Then to the May-pole come away,
For it is now a holiday.
P. 177. l. 15.Your studious, thinking, working fancy,
Never leades a quiet life,
We gently play with Cate, and Nancy,
Free from all debate and strife.
Never leades a quiet life,
We gently play with Cate, and Nancy,
Free from all debate and strife.
Alas! what boots it with incessant care
To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade,
And strictly meditate the thankless muse?
Were it not belter done, as others use,
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,
Or with the tangles of Neæra's hair?
Milton's Lycidas.
To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade,
And strictly meditate the thankless muse?
Were it not belter done, as others use,
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,
Or with the tangles of Neæra's hair?
Milton's Lycidas.
P. 178. This poem, but with great variations from my MS., is to be found in a book, well known, I believe, to collectors, entitled, "Recreations for ingenious Head-pieces; or a Pleasant Grove for their Wits to walke in, of Epigrams, 700. Epitaphs, 200. Fancies, a number. Fantasticks, abundance. With their Addition, Multiplication, and Division. Mart. Non cuique datur habere nasum. London, printed by M. Simmons, and are to be sold by John Hancock, in Pope's-head Alley. 1650."
Besides this title, there is a very curious frontispiece, with the following en-
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