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The PROROGATION.
1679.
To the Honoured Sir Scroop Howe, Knight of The Shire for Nottingham-shire.
Some good from Prorogations come;
Since, worthy Sir, they send you home.
We Country-men did want you more,
Than did the Courtiers heretofore.
Your presence will advance our fates,
As much as it has their Estates.
Be kind to us and no more give;
They'l suffer you at home to live.
Since, worthy Sir, they send you home.
We Country-men did want you more,
Than did the Courtiers heretofore.
Your presence will advance our fates,
As much as it has their Estates.
Be kind to us and no more give;
They'l suffer you at home to live.
Love is not only here more true;
But it is also safer too.
I'th' bargain they are much mista'ne,
Who pay for pleasure and buy pain.
No Popish Plots disturb our Nights;
We sleep, or wake to safe delights.
They surely find a dreadful state,
Who burning fear from Love or Hate.
No sawcy Politicks we read;
Nor shoot our bolts who shall succeed.
But it is also safer too.
I'th' bargain they are much mista'ne,
Who pay for pleasure and buy pain.
No Popish Plots disturb our Nights;
We sleep, or wake to safe delights.
They surely find a dreadful state,
Who burning fear from Love or Hate.
No sawcy Politicks we read;
Nor shoot our bolts who shall succeed.
To Law, and Gospel we refer it;
Let them decide who must inherit.
Who, without these, thinks of the Crown;
We need not fight, nor pray him down.
Let them decide who must inherit.
Who, without these, thinks of the Crown;
We need not fight, nor pray him down.
We here have nothing but the French,
Their Wine their Worship, and their Wench.
Welcome, dear Sir, to your true Friends;
Who love you only for your ends.
For your own worth you are desir'd;
By all, but by your self admir'd.
Nay, you are lov'd by more men here,
Than you, or I, lov'd Women there.
Their Wine their Worship, and their Wench.
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Who love you only for your ends.
For your own worth you are desir'd;
By all, but by your self admir'd.
Nay, you are lov'd by more men here,
Than you, or I, lov'd Women there.
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