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As unthrifts groan in straw for th… As women weep for their lost maide… When both are without hope or reme… Such an untimely grief I have for… I never saw thy face, nor did my h…
Sleep not too much; nor longer tha… Within thy bed thy lazy body keep; For when thou, warm awake, shall f… Fond cogitations will assail thee… Then start up early, study, work,…
If it might stand with justice to… The swift conversion of all follie… Such is my mercy, that I could ad… All sorts should equally approve t… Of this thy even work, whose growi…
When Cupid read this title, strai… ‘Wars, I perceive, against me wil… But spare, oh Love! to tax thy po… Who oft bath borne thy ensign 'gai… I am not he by whom thy mother ble…
Cold Virtue guard me, or I shall… From the next glance a double cale… Of fire and lust! Two flames, two… Dwell in those eyes, whose looser… Would thaw the frozen Russian int…
Now fie on foolish love, it not be… Or man or woman know it. Love was not meant for people in t… And they that fondly show it Betray the straw, and features in…
MORTALITY, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones: Here they lie had realms and lands…
The sun, which doth the greatest c… To absent friends (because the sel… They know they see, however absent… Here our best hay-maker (forgive m… It is our country style); in this…
Stand still my happiness, and swel… No more, till I consider what tho… Desire of knowledge was man’s fata… For when our parents were in parad… Though they themselves, and all th…
Never more will I protest, To love a woman but in jest: For as they cannot be true, So, to give each man his due, When the wooing fit is past
MY wanton lines doe treate of amo… Such as would bow the hearts of go… Then Venus, thou great Citherean… That hourely tript on the Idalian… Thou laughing Erycina, daygne to…
It is a statute in deep wisdom’s l… That for his lines none should a p… By wealth and poverty, by less or… But who the same is able to peruse… Nor ought a man his labour dedicat…
Flattering Hope, away and leave m… She’ll not come, thou dost deceive… Hark the cock crows, th’ envious l… Chides away the silent night; Yet she comes not, oh! how I tire
If thou hadst itch’d after the wil… Of common people, and hadst made t… In writing such as catch’d at pres… I should commend the thing, but no… But thou hast squared thy rules by…
Hear, you bad writers, and though… I will inform you where you happy… Provide the most malicious thought… And bend them all against some pri… To bring him, not his vices, on th…