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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.
 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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89. The Dejection

1

Why art thou chain'd to th' world? canst not remove
A little higher to the orbs above?
How slenderly dost thou thy stock improve?

2

Why is thy heart contained in a snare?
What secret thought dulls fancy? Oh what are
Thy thoughts invellop't with the clouds of care?

3

How cam'st thou thus, what Cell-created news
Pull down thy progress? what condition screws
Thy genius to the post, and dulls my Muse?

4

Tread down this fog, and let the beams of light
(Of a light heart I mean) display their bright
Essential glories to disband the night.

5

Rest not within thy self, what life is this?
Thy mirth is sadness, sorrow is thy bliss;
Thou liv'st below a man, and think'st amiss.
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