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Pierides

or The Muses Mount. By Hugh Crompton
Crompton, Hugh
  
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PIERIDES:
 I. 
I. Bacchus.
 II. 
II. The Power.
 III. 
III. The Apprentice.
 IV. 
IV. The Discharge.
 V. 
V. The Conceit.
 VI. 
VI. The Encomium.
 VII. 
VII. Winifred.
 VIII. 
VIII. Honesty.
 IX. 
IX. The Farewell to the World.
 X. 
X. The Puff.
 XI. 
XI. The Ejection.
 12. 
12. The Suit.
 13. 
13. Loves best object.
 14. 
14. To our Mistresses.
 15. 
15. An Epithalme.
 16. 
16. The Comparison.
 17. 
17. Man.
 18. 
18. On the renowned, Mary Villers, Dutchesse Richmond, &c.
 19. 
19. The Acrostick reduplicate.
 20. 
20. The degrees of Bacchus.
 21. 
21. Her Continence.
 22. 
22. The Soliloquy.
 23. 
23. The Lovers form.
 24. 
24. To my friends R. A. I. an Epithalme.
 25. 
25. Another.
 26. 
26. To Zoilus.
 27. 
27. The way to Wooe.
 28. 
28. Taylors.
 29. 
29. Wisdom.
 30. 
30. The Mind.
 31. 
31. The Interruption.
 32. 
32. The Requital.
 33. 
33. The Dream.
 34. 
34. The Change.
 35. 
35. The Mistake.
 36. 
36. The Encomium.
 37. 
37. Three Friends.
 38. 
38. The Apology.
 39. 
39. The Encouragement.
 40. 
40. The request to walk.
 41. 
41. The self-check.
 42. 
42. The Advise.
 43. 
43. The Blush.
 44. 
44. The Protest.
 45. 
45. The Item.
 46. 
46. The Maids Soliloquie.
 47. 
47. The Dialogue.
 48. 
48. The Times.
 49. 
49. Put the case
 50. 
50. The Ramble.
 51. 
51. The Desertion.
 52. 
52. Adonibezeck.
 53. 
53. Donec eris fœlix.
 54. 
54. The Souldier and his Mistress.
 55. 
55. The Exclamation.
 56. 
56. The Invitation to Marry.
 57. 
57. The Preeminence.
 50. 
50. The Drollery.
 59. 
59. Love beyond Reason.
 60. 
60. In the Garden.
 61. 
61. A Kiss.
 62. 
62. Hero.
 63. 
63. The Ruine.
 65. 
65. Good Liquor.
 66. 
66. The Air.
 67. 
67. Time. The Interpreter.
 68. 
68. Knowledge.
 69. 
69. The Vineyard.
 70. 
70. The Quere.
 71. 
71. The life and death of Sarah.
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72. The Messenger.
  
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 72. 
72. The Mask of Adonis.
 73. 
73. The lost Maidenhead.
 57. 
57. Good Fellowship.
 75. 
75. The Aspirer.
 75. 
75. Vice Courted.
 76. 
76. Semper Idem.
 77. 
77. Nobility.
 78. 
78. The Extremes.
 79. 
79. The dying Lover.
 80. 
80. Furioso.
 81. 
81. Loves frailty.
 82. 
82. The She Cockney.
 83. 
83. Weak Love.
 84. 
84. Rosella Sleeping.
 85. 
85. Minerva.
 86. 
86. The Charm.
 87. 
87. Rosella Maskt.
 88. 
88. Tom Tell-troth.
 89. 
89. The Dejection
 90. 
90. O Yes!
 91. 
91. The Reply.
 93. 
93. A Token.
 94. 
94. The Station.
 95. 
95. Urbs in fœlix.
 96. 
96. The Iron Age.
 97. 
97. The Bride Weeping.
 98. 
98. The Passion.
 99. 
99. To Fate.
 100. 
100. Confidence.
 101. 
101. The Check.
 102. 
102. Sack-Drawers.
 103. 
103. Her Endowments.
 104. 
104. Griefe.
 55. 
55. A Quiet Mind.
 106. 
106. Love stealing his Mistress.
 107. 
107. A Health.
 108. 
108. The Exaltation.
 109. 
109. Reality.
 110. 
110. The Ultimum vale.

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38. The Apology.

Dost thou admire to see my rhimes,
Accost thine eyes so oftentimes?
Pray tell me, can the tender lambs
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Forget to bleat unto their dams?
Or can the babe refrain its tongue
To wag to her from whence it sprung?
Can it withhold its childish strife
From her that did indow't with life?
No, no, it cannot; neither will
My muse be silent, nor my quill
Refrain its chattering unto you,
From whom my Muses breath accrew.
Had your refulgent rayes ne're shone
(With instigative power) upon
My dull Urania, she had been
Unknown, unskilful, and unseen.
Oft your own lustre did inspire
Me with an active power, and then
(Like souls) shall I not turn agen
To my Creator? mark the flame,
Ascends not it from whence it came?
No wonder then if you behold
My Muses oft to be so bold
To buz beneath your eye-beams, seeing
You are the author of their being.
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