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Wit A Sporting In a pleasant Grove Of New Fancies

By H. B. [i.e. Henry Bold]
Bold, Henry (1627-1683)

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THE AUTHOR, TO THE READER.
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A Pleasant Grove of new Fancies.
 
On a Lillie in his Ladies hand.
 
His Choyce.
 
To his Mistress when she was going into the Country.
 
To his Mistress on her scorne.
 
The Question and Anwser.
 
To his Worthy friend and Mistress.
 
To his Mistress.
 
Anagramme.
 
Fooles Paradise, or Reason Bewitcht.
 
Loves Apostacy to his friend Mr. E. D.
 
The broken-heart-song.
 
Women are mens shadows.
 
Women are not mens shadows.
 
To himself of his Mistris.
 
To his Superlative Mistris.
 
Of one Mary Frail, who lay with Mr. Reason.
 
The new Petition.
 
The Widdow Bride.
 
The true, and happy state of Love.
 
An Elegiack Sonnet.
 
A Complaint of his seperation from his Mistris, caused by his friends injunction
 
A trick for your Learning.
 
The Usurer.
 
To a Detractor.
 
To the Slanderer.
 
That he is love sick and cannot write Verses.
 
The bag of the Bee.
 
To his Mistris.
 
His Protestation to his Mistris.
 
Upon Love.
 
To his Mistris.
 
On himself.
 
To the Virgins to make much of time.
 
Upon Cupid.
 
Upon her Brests.
 
Upon himself.
 
Draw-Gloves.
 
To the Rose.
 
How Violets came blew.
 
Counsel not to love.
 
On the Willow-tree.
 
To his Mistris to command him any thing.
 
A Hymne to Venus.
 
The good night to the Bride
 
The Willow-Garland.
 
To a Teltale.
 
To Baull, the Cryer.
 
On deaf Joan, the Ale-wife.
 
To Zounds the Swaggerer
 
To the same.
 
To his Mistris.
 
On Love.
 
To his Mistris.
 
The Fairies.
 
Cherry-Pit.
 
To Robbin Redbrest.
 
His Vision to his Mistris.
 
Charon and Philomel,
 
To his Mistris.
 
To his Mistris, on the Day-break.
 
Stool-ball.
 
The May-pole.
 
To his Mistris.
 
Charmes.
 
Another.
 
Another, to bring in the Witch.
 
Another Charm for Stables.
 
Upon Cupid.
 
A Vow to Venus.
 
Charms.
 
Another.
 
Another.
 
St. Distaffs day, or the morrow after Twelf-day.
 
On Poets.
 
Of Warr.
 
On Josephs Cloke.
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DREAMS.

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To his Superlative Mistris.

Another Epigram.

Compare the Bramble to the stately Pine;
The fruitles Thistle to the vertuous Vine;
Compare the Charcole to the snow-white Down,
The wreath of Rushes to th'Imperial crown.
Compare the Raven to the turtle Dove,
The Moors of India to the queen of Love.
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Compare the Candle to the splendent Moon
The fogs of night, to Phœbus eye at noon.
Compare the Kite to sweet-breath'd Philomel,
The Lerman Lake to th'Helliconian Well,
If these admit comparison, then she
That can admit of no equalitie,
May find a parallel; but let some men
Rack their dul brains to praise their Mistris when
The utmost of their language they have spent
Let them sit down and sigh, and be content
Their Idols eyes to Sunbeams to compare,
Or by the rose her blased lips declare.
My Mistris must beyond their Saints, survive
In that unequald height, Superlative.
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