Wits: Fittes and Fancies Fronted and entermedled with Presidentes of Honour and Wisdome. Also: Loves Ovvle. An idle conceited dialogue betwene Loue, and an olde man ... A. C. [i.e. by Anthony Copley] |
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LOVES SONNET.
Now that I take my Lute in hand,
Rage and rancour I you command,
Take your sister Melancholie,
And downe to darke hell all hie yee.
For heere I meane to make my residence,
By vertue of my peacefull influence,
And cheere this aged man with louelements for euer.
Lullalullabie, &c.
Rage and rancour I you command,
Take your sister Melancholie,
And downe to darke hell all hie yee.
For heere I meane to make my residence,
By vertue of my peacefull influence,
And cheere this aged man with louelements for euer.
Lullalullabie, &c.
Though age be olde and colde, I can
Re-young him to a lustie man,
And in his iointes infuse a fire,
To execute a kinde desire.
I can reuegetate his dying yeere,
By faire be-priesting him to a bonny-pheere:
Or els dispensing him such like good cheere els where.
Lullalullaby, &c.
Re-young him to a lustie man,
And in his iointes infuse a fire,
To execute a kinde desire.
I can reuegetate his dying yeere,
By faire be-priesting him to a bonny-pheere:
Or els dispensing him such like good cheere els where.
Lullalullaby, &c.
As doth the verdant vine amount,
Climing vp her counter-mount,
Or as the hop or Yuy-vaine
Reach the top of their sustaine:
So the religious of my vnitie,
Enioying one anothers specialtie,
Attaine the period of felicitie. and content.
Lulla lullabie.
Climing vp her counter-mount,
Or as the hop or Yuy-vaine
Reach the top of their sustaine:
So the religious of my vnitie,
Enioying one anothers specialtie,
Attaine the period of felicitie. and content.
Lulla lullabie.
Dull melancholy is a rust,
Ranckling all good mettles lust,
It is a dumpe of dreriments,
Fatuity is her whole pretence,
But I am an oyle that faire bebrightens all,
Of all reioycements I am liberall,
And of all wit, I am pedagogicall. and so hent.
Lulla lullabie, &c.
Ranckling all good mettles lust,
It is a dumpe of dreriments,
Fatuity is her whole pretence,
But I am an oyle that faire bebrightens all,
Of all reioycements I am liberall,
And of all wit, I am pedagogicall. and so hent.
Lulla lullabie, &c.
Nay more: I'le tell you wondrous nues
Fyre int'yce I can infuse;
I can resuscitate the dead,
And giue them lust and liuelihead:
The dotard I can make most passing wise,
The miser in expence to riotize
The coward hardy against his enemies, all for loue.
Lulla lullaby, &c.
Fyre int'yce I can infuse;
I can resuscitate the dead,
And giue them lust and liuelihead:
The dotard I can make most passing wise,
The miser in expence to riotize
The coward hardy against his enemies, all for loue.
Lulla lullaby, &c.
The plough-lob I can ciuillize,
The franticke man with grace aguize;
Kings and Cesars I subdue,
And with my rites their soules in lue.
All faire and goodly things I do detect
And with my vaile I couer all defect,
And all in vnitie I do connect and approoue.
Lulla lullabie.
The franticke man with grace aguize;
Kings and Cesars I subdue,
And with my rites their soules in lue.
All faire and goodly things I do detect
And with my vaile I couer all defect,
And all in vnitie I do connect and approoue.
Lulla lullabie.
Looke vp to heauen, and I am there,
I raigne in the celestiall Spheare:
The Signes and Planets haue from me
Their influence and harmony:
Nor heauē, nor earth haue vniformity
Nor any faculty her simpathy,
Wherby to doe her due actiuity. without me.
Lulla lullabie. &c.
I raigne in the celestiall Spheare:
The Signes and Planets haue from me
Their influence and harmony:
Nor heauē, nor earth haue vniformity
Nor any faculty her simpathy,
Wherby to doe her due actiuity. without me.
Lulla lullabie. &c.
I doe deuise all gay attyres,
Calles, rebatoes, perwigs and wires:
Hoop-sleeues, French-bodies, vardingalles,
Paintings, perfumes and washing-balles;
With twenty thousand such like bonny things,
To grace faire Nature, and mis-natures doings,
And profite trades by doing my deuisings, workemanly.
Lulla lullabie, &c.
Calles, rebatoes, perwigs and wires:
Hoop-sleeues, French-bodies, vardingalles,
Paintings, perfumes and washing-balles;
With twenty thousand such like bonny things,
To grace faire Nature, and mis-natures doings,
And profite trades by doing my deuisings, workemanly.
Lulla lullabie, &c.
Feasts and frollickes I doe ordaine,
And merrie meetings on the plaine;
Reuels, and daunces in a rowe,
And morrow-musicke at the window:
Tilting, & iusts are my magnificence,
The pomp wherof forbeareth no expence,
If so my spirit be in the pretence, and grace it.
Lulla lullabie, &c.
And merrie meetings on the plaine;
Reuels, and daunces in a rowe,
And morrow-musicke at the window:
Tilting, & iusts are my magnificence,
The pomp wherof forbeareth no expence,
If so my spirit be in the pretence, and grace it.
Lulla lullabie, &c.
Maskes, and musicke is in the Court,
And Maie-pole mirth is country sport,
Maie-morning comes but once a yeare,
Yet are my doings euery wheare,
The court, and country both haue priuities,
In which I still maintaine actiuities,
By coupling two, and two in sollaces all secret.
Lulla lullaby &c.
And Maie-pole mirth is country sport,
Maie-morning comes but once a yeare,
Yet are my doings euery wheare,
The court, and country both haue priuities,
In which I still maintaine actiuities,
By coupling two, and two in sollaces all secret.
Lulla lullaby &c.
Maides, and widdowes are of my traine,
Hard it were they should refraine;
The verie Clergie, and their wiues,
Loue me as they loue their liues;
Men and women all are Salamanders,
Glutting my fires euery where in corners,
Because they know such fires bode no dangers, nor consume,
Lulla lullabie. &c.
Hard it were they should refraine;
The verie Clergie, and their wiues,
Loue me as they loue their liues;
Men and women all are Salamanders,
Glutting my fires euery where in corners,
Because they know such fires bode no dangers, nor consume,
Lulla lullabie. &c.
Wrinckles, and pimples I can cure,
And make the stutting tongue demure;
The trembling palsey I can staie,
And take the misers gowt away:
The cripple creature I can make to runne,
The blind man with new eyes to see the sunne,
And set in other teeth where th'old are done with the rewme.
Lulla lullabie.
And make the stutting tongue demure;
The trembling palsey I can staie,
And take the misers gowt away:
The cripple creature I can make to runne,
The blind man with new eyes to see the sunne,
And set in other teeth where th'old are done with the rewme.
Lulla lullabie.
The aged Beldams withered face,
I can giue it a glittering grace;
Her breath vnsauory to the nose,
I can besweeten like the Rose:
I can exchange her pale gray haires to golde,
Her rewme-cough into musicke manifold,
Her bethred bodie all to lust embold, so can I.
Lulla lullabie &c.
I can giue it a glittering grace;
Her breath vnsauory to the nose,
I can besweeten like the Rose:
I can exchange her pale gray haires to golde,
Her rewme-cough into musicke manifold,
Her bethred bodie all to lust embold, so can I.
Lulla lullabie &c.
The weakest impotent aliue,
My quickening spirit can reuiue,
Nor drugs, nor drammes, I minister,
Nor pilles, nor powltis, nor plaister,
But only a copletiue desire t'inioy
The full felicity of a priuy toy,
That trulie counter-giues sweet ioy for ioy, al-a-by.
Lulla lullabie. &c.
My quickening spirit can reuiue,
Nor drugs, nor drammes, I minister,
Nor pilles, nor powltis, nor plaister,
But only a copletiue desire t'inioy
The full felicity of a priuy toy,
That trulie counter-giues sweet ioy for ioy, al-a-by.
Lulla lullabie. &c.
Then since I am so physicall,
So musicall, so martiall,
So Court-accepted, and rurall,
And so ioy-mighty ouer all:
Be not t'your selfe so preiudiciall,
As to refuse my beneficiall
Bounties, in ouer-melancholie gall,
Lulla lullabie, lulla lullabie.
So musicall, so martiall,
So Court-accepted, and rurall,
And so ioy-mighty ouer all:
Be not t'your selfe so preiudiciall,
As to refuse my beneficiall
Bounties, in ouer-melancholie gall,
Lulla lullabie, lulla lullabie.
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