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Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure

Fvrnished with Mvch Variety of Speculations, Wittie, Pleasant, and Delightfull. Containing divers choyce Love-Posies, Songs, Sonnets, Odes, Madrigals, Satyrs, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Elegies. For varietie and pleasure the like never before published. By S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pick]
 
 

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To the Reader.

Most welcome guest, to thee my homely Cates,
If any thing my barren Muse relates,
That may the palate of thy stomacke please,
I wish't Ambrosia, though a pulce or pease;
Here is no forc't, but voluntary dish,
And should be better, had I but my wish.