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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.
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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.
 
Upon Cupid.
 
Upon her Brests.
 
Upon himself.
 
Draw-Gloves.
 
To the Rose.
 
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
 
To the same.
 
To his Mistris.
 
On Love.
 
To his Mistris.
 
The Fairies.
 
Cherry-Pit.
 
To Robbin Redbrest.
 
His Vision to his Mistris.
 
Charon and Philomel,
 
To his Mistris.
 
To his Mistris, on the Day-break.
 
Stool-ball.
 
The May-pole.
 
To his Mistris.
 
Charmes.
 
Another.
 
Another, to bring in the Witch.
 
Another Charm for Stables.
 
Upon Cupid.
 
A Vow to Venus.
 
Charms.
 
Another.
 
Another.
 
St. Distaffs day, or the morrow after Twelf-day.
 
On Poets.
 
Of Warr.
 
On Josephs Cloke.
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DREAMS.
 
The first Dream.
 
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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Loves Apostacy to his friend Mr. E. D.

Tut, let her goe, can I indure all this,
Yet dye, to doate upon a maydens kisse?
Is there such Magicke in her lookes, that can,
Into a foole, transfigurate a man?
Didst thou not love her? true: and shee disdaine
To meete thy vertue? let her meete her shame.
Were she as faire as she her selfe would be,
Adorn'd with all the cost of bravery:
Could she melt hearts of flint, and from her eye
Give her beholders power to live or die.
I'de rather begge she would pronounce my death,
Then be her scorne, though that preserv'd my breath
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Rise heart! and be not foold; S'foot what a shame
Were it for thee to re-incence one flame
From the declining spark! dost thou not know
As shees a woman, her whole Sex doth owe
To thine all honor? her false heart & pride
Dare not oppose thy faith; then turn high tide,
And let her (since her scorn doth so disease thee)
By her repentance strive again to pleas thee.
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