The Fourth Volume of the Writings Of the Author of the London-Spy Prose and Verse [by Edward Ward] |
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Wine beyond Love, or the Bottle before Beauty.
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Wine beyond Love, or the Bottle before Beauty.
A Song.
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Sir , since you inform'd us in your Letter the Words you desired were to be set to Musick, we have ordered them accordingly, in hopes to oblige you; if you find 'em for your purpose, you may command the like upon any other Occasion.
Venus
the Charming Goddess of the Fair,
May have a Thousand Cupids in her Face,
To wound her young Admirers, and prepare
Her Lover to attack another Place,
Where Tide's of Pleasure do the Banks o'erflow,
And where the youthful Swain delights to cast
His Anchor, tho is Cable is, we know,
To short to fathom and to weak to last;
May have a Thousand Cupids in her Face,
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Her Lover to attack another Place,
Where Tide's of Pleasure do the Banks o'erflow,
And where the youthful Swain delights to cast
His Anchor, tho is Cable is, we know,
To short to fathom and to weak to last;
Bacchus, in spite of Love, my God shall be,
Let Mars and Venus jumble in the dark,
No Female Charms shall win a Sigh from me,
Woman's a Vessel I shall ne'er embark.
Let Mars and Venus jumble in the dark,
No Female Charms shall win a Sigh from me,
Woman's a Vessel I shall ne'er embark.
Love and Beauty you may ask,
Give to me the chearful Flask,
You will quickly have your fill,
Mine will yield me Comfort still;
E'ery Nimph will talk and range,
Full of Prattle, full of Change,
Too discerning or too blind,
Too Contentious or too kind;
I'll no Woman's Bubble be,
Love for you and Wine for me.
Give to me the chearful Flask,
You will quickly have your fill,
Mine will yield me Comfort still;
E'ery Nimph will talk and range,
Full of Prattle, full of Change,
Too discerning or too blind,
Too Contentious or too kind;
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Love for you and Wine for me.
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