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Pierides

or The Muses Mount. By Hugh Crompton
Crompton, Hugh
  
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PIERIDES:
 I. 
I. Bacchus.
 II. 
II. The Power.
 III. 
III. The Apprentice.
 IV. 
IV. The Discharge.
 V. 
V. The Conceit.
 VI. 
VI. The Encomium.
 VII. 
VII. Winifred.
 VIII. 
VIII. Honesty.
 IX. 
IX. The Farewell to the World.
 X. 
X. The Puff.
 XI. 
XI. The Ejection.
 12. 
12. The Suit.
 13. 
13. Loves best object.
 14. 
14. To our Mistresses.
 15. 
15. An Epithalme.
 16. 
16. The Comparison.
 17. 
17. Man.
 18. 
18. On the renowned, Mary Villers, Dutchesse Richmond, &c.
 19. 
19. The Acrostick reduplicate.
 20. 
20. The degrees of Bacchus.
 21. 
21. Her Continence.
 22. 
22. The Soliloquy.
 23. 
23. The Lovers form.
 24. 
24. To my friends R. A. I. an Epithalme.
 25. 
25. Another.
 26. 
26. To Zoilus.
 27. 
27. The way to Wooe.
 28. 
28. Taylors.
 29. 
29. Wisdom.
 30. 
30. The Mind.
 31. 
31. The Interruption.
 32. 
32. The Requital.
 33. 
33. The Dream.
 34. 
34. The Change.
 35. 
35. The Mistake.
 36. 
36. The Encomium.
 37. 
37. Three Friends.
 38. 
38. The Apology.
 39. 
39. The Encouragement.
 40. 
40. The request to walk.
 41. 
41. The self-check.
 42. 
42. The Advise.
 43. 
43. The Blush.
 44. 
44. The Protest.
 45. 
45. The Item.
 46. 
46. The Maids Soliloquie.
 47. 
47. The Dialogue.
 48. 
48. The Times.
 49. 
49. Put the case
 50. 
50. The Ramble.
 51. 
51. The Desertion.
 52. 
52. Adonibezeck.
 53. 
53. Donec eris fœlix.
 54. 
54. The Souldier and his Mistress.
 55. 
55. The Exclamation.
 56. 
56. The Invitation to Marry.
 57. 
57. The Preeminence.
 50. 
50. The Drollery.
 59. 
59. Love beyond Reason.
 60. 
60. In the Garden.
 61. 
61. A Kiss.
 62. 
62. Hero.
 63. 
63. The Ruine.
 65. 
65. Good Liquor.
 66. 
66. The Air.
 67. 
67. Time. The Interpreter.
 68. 
68. Knowledge.
 69. 
69. The Vineyard.
 70. 
70. The Quere.
 71. 
71. The life and death of Sarah.
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72. The Messenger.
  
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 72. 
72. The Mask of Adonis.
 73. 
73. The lost Maidenhead.
 57. 
57. Good Fellowship.
 75. 
75. The Aspirer.
 75. 
75. Vice Courted.
 76. 
76. Semper Idem.
 77. 
77. Nobility.
 78. 
78. The Extremes.
 79. 
79. The dying Lover.
 80. 
80. Furioso.
 81. 
81. Loves frailty.
 82. 
82. The She Cockney.
 83. 
83. Weak Love.
 84. 
84. Rosella Sleeping.
 85. 
85. Minerva.
 86. 
86. The Charm.
 87. 
87. Rosella Maskt.
 88. 
88. Tom Tell-troth.
 89. 
89. The Dejection
 90. 
90. O Yes!
 91. 
91. The Reply.
 93. 
93. A Token.
 94. 
94. The Station.
 95. 
95. Urbs in fœlix.
 96. 
96. The Iron Age.
 97. 
97. The Bride Weeping.
 98. 
98. The Passion.
 99. 
99. To Fate.
 100. 
100. Confidence.
 101. 
101. The Check.
 102. 
102. Sack-Drawers.
 103. 
103. Her Endowments.
 104. 
104. Griefe.
 55. 
55. A Quiet Mind.
 106. 
106. Love stealing his Mistress.
 107. 
107. A Health.
 108. 
108. The Exaltation.
 109. 
109. Reality.
 110. 
110. The Ultimum vale.

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95. Urbs in fœlix.

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If like a Mill my Harp did move,
I need not use my fingers,
Nor call for help from heaven above,
Nor seek for earthly singers.
The streams of tears that from mine eyes gusht out,
Would be enough to turn the wheel about.

2

I've search'd each angle of thy soul,
I've peep't through every cranny,
I find beyond compare th' art foul,
Thy vices are too many
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For tongue to tell to the intentive ears,
Flowing as proudly as my brack sh tears.

3

I from my window cast mine eye,
Where wanton girls were seen,
All clothed with immodesty,
And prides rich Magazine:
Whose proud array, and prouder looks did tell
Their journeys were in vain, their end was hell.

4

Unhappy people, come refrain;
Renew your so lowing years:
Weep for your loss and for your gain,
Till sin is drown'd with tears.
Your golden mines of Love and Peace are dumb,
While leaden strife and envy take their room.
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