Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure Fvrnished with Mvch Variety of Speculations, Wittie, Pleasant, and Delightfull. Containing divers choyce Love-Posies, Songs, Sonnets, Odes, Madrigals, Satyrs, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Elegies. For varietie and pleasure the like never before published. By S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pick] |
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An invective against Women.
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An invective against Women.
If Women could be faire, and yet not fond,
Or that their love were firme, not fickle still:
I would not wonder that they make men bound,
By serving long to purchase their good will:
But when I see how fraile these creatures are,
I laugh that men forget themselves so farre.
Or that their love were firme, not fickle still:
I would not wonder that they make men bound,
By serving long to purchase their good will:
But when I see how fraile these creatures are,
I laugh that men forget themselves so farre.
To mark the choyce they make, and how they change,
How oft from Phœbus they doe change to Pan,
Unsetled still like haggards wild they range,
These gentle birds that flie from man to man,
Who would not scorne and shake them from the fist,
And let them goe faire fooles which way they list?
How oft from Phœbus they doe change to Pan,
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These gentle birds that flie from man to man,
Who would not scorne and shake them from the fist,
And let them goe faire fooles which way they list?
Yet for their sport we fawne and flatter both,
To passe the time when nothing else can please,
And traine them to our lure by substill oath,
Till weary of our wills our selves we ease,
And then we say when we their fancy trie,
To play with fooles, O what a doult was I?
To passe the time when nothing else can please,
And traine them to our lure by substill oath,
Till weary of our wills our selves we ease,
And then we say when we their fancy trie,
To play with fooles, O what a doult was I?
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