The Treasury of Musick Containing ayres and dialogues To Sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol. Composed |
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The Crafty Lover.
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The Crafty Lover.
No more will I contemplate Love,
Nor yet implore the Pow'rs above
To cast their Influence on a Mind
That can profess, and not be Kind.
If good Examples will not do,
I must decline the Practice too.
Nor yet implore the Pow'rs above
To cast their Influence on a Mind
That can profess, and not be Kind.
If good Examples will not do,
I must decline the Practice too.
My Mistress I'le no more admire,
Her Beauty or her Love desire;
Though in proportion both agree,
When neither doth reflect on me:
I may without a guilty thought
Esteem those faculties from nought.
Her Beauty or her Love desire;
Though in proportion both agree,
When neither doth reflect on me:
I may without a guilty thought
Esteem those faculties from nought.
Let those who love to spend their days
In speaking Women, or their praise;
Apply their Virtue to their use,
As if 'twere real such abuse:
I can but scorn, 'twill never take;
I honour Virtue for its sake.
In speaking Women, or their praise;
Apply their Virtue to their use,
As if 'twere real such abuse:
I can but scorn, 'twill never take;
I honour Virtue for its sake.
I will no longer sacrifice
To such unsacred Miseries,
Nor yet contribute to a pow'r
Exacts Obedience ev'ry hour:
No no, my thoughts are too too free
To fancy Her that Loves not me.
To such unsacred Miseries,
Nor yet contribute to a pow'r
Exacts Obedience ev'ry hour:
No no, my thoughts are too too free
To fancy Her that Loves not me.
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