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Pierides

or The Muses Mount. By Hugh Crompton
Crompton, Hugh
  
[dedication]

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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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67. Time. The Interpreter.

What serious students with their busied brains
Could ne're unlock; what Philosophick pains
Tri'd, and fell short of: what strong art ne're wist:
What was a theme too hard for th' Alchymist:
What mighty Merlin in his operation,
Fore sight, Prediction, and prognostication,
Could not unroll, Time has now detected:
Yet still he is dispes'd, and dis-respected:
There's no man crowns him with a wreath of praise,
Compos'd of Lawrel triumph, though his waies
Are rules of truth; while error boldly draws
Worlds of applause to her insatiate claws.
Infected Animals, how are ye blinded
With misty judgements? how intic't and winded
With strange belief? how nimble, and how prone
To build on rottenness? Rely upon
Deluding Motives? making declination
From the firm Basis of true revelation.
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Page your opinions, you unbridled youths,
[illeg.] time, not Artists will declare our truths.
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