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[Transcriber's Note: This e-book is volume 5 of Thomas D'Urfey's _Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy_, published in six volumes in 1719-20 by J. Tonson, London. It was prepared from a 1959 facsimile reprint by Folklore Library Publishers, Inc., New York, of an 1876 re...
My Life and Death does lye both in your Power, And every Man to his Mind, _Shrewsbury_ for me; On the Bank of a Brook as I sat Fishing, Shall I Die a Maid and never Married be:...
4. Chapter 4When first _Mardyke_ was made a Prey, 'Twas Courage that carry'd the Fort away, Then do not lose your Valours Prize, By gazing on your Mistresses Eyes; But put off your Petticoa...
5. Chapter 5Upon a Holiday, when Nymphs had leave to play, I walk'd unseen, on a pleasant Green, Where I heard a Maid in an angry Spleen, Complaining to a Swain, to leave his drudging Pain,...
10. Chapter 10Now hur can coe to Shurch, or hur can stay at home, Hur can say hur _Lord's Prayer_, or hur can let it alone: Hur can make a Prayer of hur own Head, lye with hur Holy Sister, Ay...
3. Chapter 3_Gilderoy_ was a bonny Boy, Had Roses tull his shun, His Stockings were made of the finest Silk, His Garters hanging down: It was a comely sight to see, He was so trim a Boy; He...
6. Chapter 6Last of all there should appear, Seven Eunuchs sphere-like Singing here, In the Praise, Of those Ways, Of delights; _Venus_ can, Use with Man, In the Night; When he strives to a...
7. Chapter 7Still my Heart is so just to my Passionate Eyes, It dissolves with Delight while I gaze: And he that loves on, though _Sylvia_ denies, His Love but his Duty obeys: I no more can...
9. Chapter 9'Tis I, says the _Whore_, must take all the Pains, And you shall be damn'd e'er you get all the Gains; The _Baud_ being vex'd, straight to her did say, Come off wi' your _Duds_,...
8. Chapter 8Hither turn thee, hither turn thee, hither turn thee gentle Swain, Hither turn thee, hither turn thee, hither turn thee gentle Swain, Let not _Venus_, let not _Venus_, let not _...
11. Chapter 11Oh! was she but as true as fair, 'Twou'd put an end to my Despair; But ah, alass! this is unkind, Which sore does terrify my Mind; _'Twas o'er the Hills, and far away,_ _'Twas o...
1. Chapter 1[Transcriber's Note: This e-book is volume 5 of Thomas D'Urfey's _Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy_, published in six volumes in 1719-20 by J. Tonson, London. It was...