Amanda A Sacrifice To an Unknown Goddesse, or, A Free-Will Offering Of a loving Heart to a Sweet-Heart. By N. H. [i.e. Nicholas Hookes] |
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To Amanda Reading.
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To Amanda Reading.
What Book or subject, Fairest, can it be,
Which can instruct, delight or pleasure thee?
Poems! Kisse me but once and I'le out-vie
The Authors Master-piece of Poetrie;
And rather then not win and please thee in't,
All the nine Muses shall be drest in print;
I'le quaffe Pyrene off, and write a line
Shall charm Amanda's heart, and make her mine,
I'le drink a Helicon of sack to thee,
And fox thy sense wich Lovers stuponie.
Which can instruct, delight or pleasure thee?
Poems! Kisse me but once and I'le out-vie
The Authors Master-piece of Poetrie;
And rather then not win and please thee in't,
All the nine Muses shall be drest in print;
I'le quaffe Pyrene off, and write a line
Shall charm Amanda's heart, and make her mine,
I'le drink a Helicon of sack to thee,
And fox thy sense wich Lovers stuponie.
Reade on my Fairest, I am reading too,
A better book, my Dear, I'm reading you;
A fine neat volume, and full fraught with wit,
The womans best Encomium e're was writ;
Off of my book I never cast my eye,
A Scholar I shall be most certainly;
Nay, who so er'e derives his learning hence,
Doctor of Civil Court-ship may commence;
For who (my pretty Fancie) reades but thee,
Reades o're a whole Vatican Librarie
Of womans worth, most women in compare
But Ballads, Pamphlets and Diurnals are:
The life and beauty of Art and Learning is
I'th' very Preface and the Frontispice;
If in my Study reade thee o're I might,
Oh I could con my lesson day and night;
I and my book in all things treat of thee,
Then prethy dedicate thy book to me;
Make me the binding to't, I only plead
I may be cover to the book I read.
A better book, my Dear, I'm reading you;
A fine neat volume, and full fraught with wit,
The womans best Encomium e're was writ;
Off of my book I never cast my eye,
A Scholar I shall be most certainly;
Nay, who so er'e derives his learning hence,
Doctor of Civil Court-ship may commence;
For who (my pretty Fancie) reades but thee,
Reades o're a whole Vatican Librarie
Of womans worth, most women in compare
But Ballads, Pamphlets and Diurnals are:
The life and beauty of Art and Learning is
I'th' very Preface and the Frontispice;
If in my Study reade thee o're I might,
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I and my book in all things treat of thee,
Then prethy dedicate thy book to me;
Make me the binding to't, I only plead
I may be cover to the book I read.
On these my lines if e're thou chance to look,
Reade me, Amanda, when thou read'st my book;
If in the print there any errours be,
Accuse the carelesse Presse, and blame not me.
Reade me, Amanda, when thou read'st my book;
If in the print there any errours be,
Accuse the carelesse Presse, and blame not me.
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