The Delights of the Bottle or, The Compleat Vintner. With the Humours of Bubble Upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. Dinner Spungers. Jill Tiplers. Beef Beggars. Cook Teasers. Pan Soppers. Plate Twirlers. Table Whitlers. Drawer Biters. Spoon Pinchers. And other Tavern Tormenters. A Merry Poem. To which is added, A South-Sea Song upon the late Bubbles. By the Author of the Cavalcade [i.e. Edward Ward] |
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What Am'rous Youth, to Love inclin'd,
Can press dear Phillis to be kind,
In Words that will at once inspire
The blushing Nymph with like desire,
Till noble Wine has wash'd away
Those Fears that do their Joys delay,
And banish'd from their trembling Youth,
The native bashfulness of both;
Then, mutually inclin'd to bless
Each other with a soft Embrace,
Their struggling Souls with vigour meet,
And kindly taste the short and sweet.
Thus Love can only with his Darts
Perplex and terrify our Hearts,
But Gen'rous Bacchus pity takes,
And heals the Wounds that Cupid makes.
Can press dear Phillis to be kind,
In Words that will at once inspire
The blushing Nymph with like desire,
Till noble Wine has wash'd away
Those Fears that do their Joys delay,
And banish'd from their trembling Youth,
The native bashfulness of both;
Then, mutually inclin'd to bless
Each other with a soft Embrace,
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And kindly taste the short and sweet.
Thus Love can only with his Darts
Perplex and terrify our Hearts,
But Gen'rous Bacchus pity takes,
And heals the Wounds that Cupid makes.
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