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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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81. Loves frailty.

Love, thou art a false delight,
Th' art shoulder'd up with blisses,
Blinded with golden kisses;
Thy holiday is night.
Love, thou art a wanton youth,
And guilty of high treason
Against the Prince of reason:
Thy target is untruth.
Love, those leering looks of thine
Are gilt with feigned passion,
Mixt with dissimulation:
Flattery's thy Brigandine.
Love, thou art a subtile thiefe,
That dost both rob and wound us,
And many times confound us,
But giv'st us no relief.
Then Love avoid, and court my thoughts no more;
Thy birth is spurious, Venus is a whore.
Think not to trap me with thy sugered wiles;
I care not for thy frowns, nor weigh thy smiles:
One shall not please me, nor the other grieve me;
Beauty shall neither wound, nor Love relieve me.
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