CHO. CHO. CHO. CHO. SONG. What need we use many beseeches, Or trouble our brain with long speeches If we love, tis enough, Hang poetical stuff, As the rule of honesty teaches. If we love, &c. Why should we stand whining like fools, Or woe by platonical rules; If they love, we'll repayt, If not, let em sayt, What need they the help of the schools. But they must be won by romances, A third do's delight In a song, yet at night You must crack a string which she fancies. From the English Rogue, a Comedy, by T. Thompson. 1668. SONG SONG. Fond Love, no more Will I adore Thy feigned Deity. Go throw thy darts And prove thy victory. Whilst I do keep My harmless sheep, Love hath no power on me. Tis idle soules Which he controules, The busie man is free. From Loves Labyrinth, or the Royal Shepherdess, a Tragi-comedy, by Tho. Forde Philothal. 1660. SONG. Thine eyes to me like suunes appeare, Or else a day of night: But truly I do think they are But eyes-and neither sunne nor starre. Thy brow is as the milky way, But to speake truly, I doe vowe, They are but womans lips and browe, Thy cheeke it is a mingled bath But here theres no man power hath To gather loves fresh posies. Thy nose a promontory faire, Thy necke a necke of land; But to the clearer judgment, those For foure lines in passion I can dye, And dabble too in poetry, Whilst love possess the wise. As greatest statesmen, or as those That know love best, get him in prose. From the Variety. A Comedy. By the Duke of Newcastle. 1649. SONG. Not he that knows how to acquire, But to enjoy, is blest; Nor does our happiness consist In motion, but in rest. The The Gods passe man in blisse, because But can enjoy, and in their own' Then, princes, do not toile nor care, Enjoy what you possessė, Which whilest you do, you equallize The gods in happinesse. From the Tragedie of Cleopatra, by Thomas May. 1654. First printed in 1639. Is there a lady in this place, Would not bee maskt, but for her face? Will make your pale cheeks plumpe and fat. Should I thus crye, And none a scruple of me buye? E 4 Coma Come buy, you lusty gallants, These simples which I sell; In all our days were never seene like these, Heres the king cup, the panzee, with the violet, The rose that loves the shower, The wholsome gilliflower, Both the cowslip, lilly, And the daffadilly, With a thousand in my power. Heres golden amaranthus, That true love can provoke, Of horehound store, and poysoning elebore, With the polipode of the oake; Health preserving sage, With a world of others, Making fruitful mothers; All these attend mee as my page: From the true Tragedy of Herod and Antipater, by Gervase Markham and William Samp1622. son, To the above I might easily have added other specimens of equal merit, but my object was to produce a performance of miscellaneous entertainment. It may be objected, that what I have inserted are not sufficiently select, and that far better examples of the poetry of the times in |