Category: Poetry

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6

_As_ Amoret _and_ Thyrsis _lay,_ 30 _As unconcern'd and free as Air,_ 33 _As I am a Sailor,_ 41 _And now, now the Duke's March,_ 47 Aurelia _now one Moment lost,_ 48 _After the pangs of fierce Desire,_ 78 _A Pox on the Fool,_ 119 _A Young Man lately in our Town,_ 180 _All Joy...

Chapters

5. Part 5

Here's Limmons of the biggest size, With Eggs and Butter too; Brave News they say is come to Day, If _Jones's_ News be true: Here's Spiggot and fine Wooden-wares, With Fossets t...

7. Part 7

Lay by your Pleading, The Law lies a Bleeding, Burn all your Studies down, and throw away your Reading; Small Power the World has, And doth afford us, Not half so many Privilege...

2. Part 2

Come, here's a good Health, the Duke I do mean, That bravely Fought, that bravely Fought for his Nation and Queen, May his Fate still be, That Conquer shall he Till the Nation w...

10. Part 10

A Fardel farther I would see, And some began to muse me; The Lasses they sat wittally, And the Lads began to Rooze me: The Blades with Beaus came down she knows, Like ring Rooks...

4. Part 4

The Tanner's Trade I practice, Sometimes amongst the rest Sir; Yet I could never get a Hair, Of any Hide I dress'd Sir; For I have been tanning of a Hide, This long seven Years...

9. Part 9

A Pedlar proud as I heard tell, He came into a Town: With certain Wares he had to sell, Which he cry'd up and down: At first of all he did begin, With Ribbonds, or Laces, Points...

6. Part 6

_Astrea_ saw the Shepherds bleed, Regardless of their Pain; Unmov'd she hear'd their Oaten Reed, They Dance and Sung in vain; At length _Amintor_ did appear, That Miracle of Man...

11. Part 11

You Bill and Cooe when you are kind, And happy's the Nymph believes you; You are true, but you are not Blind, For never a Nymph deceives you; Tho' she were naught, you'll ne'er...

3. Part 3

Come upon a Worky-day, When I have my old Cloaths on; I shall not be so nice nor Coy, Nor stand so much upon: Then hawl and pull, and do your best, Yet I shall gentle be: Kiss h...

12. Part 12

Let those Youths who Freedom prize, Far from the conquering _Sylvia_ run, Never see her killing Eyes, Or hear her soft enchanting Tongue: For such sure Destruction waits, On tho...

8. Part 8

[Music: _Troy_ had a breed of brave stout Men, yet _Greece_ made shift to rout her; cause each Man Drank as much as Ten, and thence grew ten times stouter: Tho' _Hector_ was a _...

1. Part 1

_As_ Amoret _and_ Thyrsis _lay,_ 30 _As unconcern'd and free as Air,_ 33 _As I am a Sailor,_ 41 _And now, now the Duke's March,_ 47 Aurelia _now one Moment lost,_ 48 _After the...

13. Part 13

Such an happy, happy Life, Ne'er had any other Wife; As the loose _Corinna_ knows, Between her Spark, Her Spark and Spouse: The Husband lies and winks his Eyes, The valiant make...