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Wit A Sporting In a pleasant Grove Of New Fancies

By H. B. [i.e. Henry Bold]

Bold, Henry (1627-1683)

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THE AUTHOR, TO THE READER.

A Pleasant Grove of new Fancies.

On a Lillie in his Ladies hand.

His Choyce.

To his Mistress when she was going into the Country.

To his Mistress on her scorne.

The Question and Anwser.

To his Worthy friend and Mistress.

To his Mistress.

Anagramme.

Fooles Paradise, or Reason Bewitcht.

Loves Apostacy to his friend Mr. E. D.

The broken-heart-song.

Women are mens shadows.

Women are not mens shadows.

To himself of his Mistris.

To his Superlative Mistris.

Of one Mary Frail, who lay with Mr. Reason.

The new Petition.

The Widdow Bride.

The true, and happy state of Love.

An Elegiack Sonnet.

A Complaint of his seperation from his Mistris, caused by his friends injunction

A trick for your Learning.

The Usurer.

To a Detractor.

To the Slanderer.

That he is love sick and cannot write Verses.

The bag of the Bee.

To his Mistris.

His Protestation to his Mistris.

Upon Love.

To his Mistris.

On himself.

To the Virgins to make much of time.

How Violets came blew.

Counsel not to love.

On the Willow-tree.

To his Mistris to command him any thing.

A Hymne to Venus.

The good night to the Bride

The Willow-Garland.

To a Teltale.

To Baull, the Cryer.

On deaf Joan, the Ale-wife.

To Zounds the Swaggerer

His Vision to his Mistris.

Charon and Philomel,

To his Mistris.

To his Mistris, on the Day-break.

Another, to bring in the Witch.

Another Charm for Stables.

St. Distaffs day, or the morrow after Twelf-day.

On Phillis Close Nun-like Retirement.

Phillis Nun-like Coyness.

The second Dream.

PHILLIS her Lute.

PHILLIS Hand and Glove.

His third Dream of FILLIS Evening Walk and Voice.

FILLIS and the Nightingale.

His fourth Dream of Cressas Funeral, the Love of Difloris.

Epitaph.

PHILLIS Complaint.

On his retired Lady.

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To his Mistris to command him any thing.

Bid me to live, and I will live,
thy servant for to be;
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.

A heart as soft, a heart as kinde,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst finde,
That heart Ile give to thee.

Bid that heart stay, and it will stay,
To honor thy decree;
Or bid it languish quite away,
And it shall do it for thee.

Bid me to weep, and I will weep
While I have eyes to see:
And having none, yet I will keep
A heart to weep for thee.

Bid me despair, and Ile despaire

Under that Cyprus tree,
Or bid me die, and I will dare
Even death to die for thee.

Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me:
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee.

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To his Mistris to command him any thing.