delays to stay longer where I am and be undone by them I am Yours hastily in hast R. Hastings A Letter sent to a Friend condoling his long continued sickness Dear Friend I Am very sorry and much grieved to hear that you thus long have lain languishing on the bed of sickness my heart participates of your dolorous miseries feeling by way of sympathy the self same torment which you undergo but that alas I doubt won't give you ease though 't is a seeming comfort or rather I may say a satisfaction to be pittyed by our Friends Let me admonish you to take the advice of the best Learned and most eminent Physician that you know of and be not concerned for parting with your Money though sickness I know is very chargeable yet well you know now by sad experience that the perfect enjoyment of your health is far more pleasant and delightful then baggs full heaped with Gold and Silver therefore be not sparing of your Coyn so far as it may be available and conducing to the procuring of your welfare and that you may recover your former strength shall be the Players of Your most affectionate Friend in sorrow S. T. The sick Man's thankful Answer Dear Friend THe very sight of your most cordial Letter did give somi ease to my distressed miseries for which you have the kind and hearty thanks of a sick and almost dying Man 't is long since I considered that worldly wealth is but dross neither do I esteem of it as any comfort only to procure those necessaries which while we live on earth we stand in needâ—â— for well I know that when my breath is departed from me and my blood grown cold and death hath brought my body to the Grace that then the wealth of Croe us will not avail me any thing nor stand me in any stead My heart is fixed now upon a better subject which is that after Death my Soul may find rest and comfort in another World whither now I am going endeavouring to repent of all my past sins consulting with my Maker concerning my happiness for he is the best and only Physician that can give ease to those my sore afflictions this as a farewel to you I do send who am Till death gives ease your friend in torments B. D. A Letter to perswade a Friend to betake himself to business Loving Friend VVHen I consider the many inconveniencies that are incident to those that live remisly and have no employment it puts me in mind of your Life and Conversation and to deal plainly and honestly with you like a Friend I am very sorry to see that idleness has taken such possession of your mind that you will betake your self to no business but just like a Swine you eat and drink what is set before you but never endeavour to get Money to buy more Suppose you have enough barely to live upon in time of your Families health that ought not to be all the care that you should take for it behoves every Master of a Family to provide and lay up something against a rainy day as they say that is against sickness or any other casualty that may happen to you before you die besides already you have two Children pretty Babes and it may please God to send you more which when they come to bigness and ripeness of Age will expect that you should give them a portion according to their education which must be Gentily for your own repute and credits sake all which will cost you no small sum of Money and when your Estate comes to be divided amongst three or four it will be but a slender maintenance for them all my advice is therefore that you forthwith employ your stock of Money in some honest way which you understand and that will improve your fortune by careful industry with some small pains which will be very advantageous for your bodily health for always to sit still and do nothing but eat and drink and sleep corrupts the blood and will impair your health I know you understand the way of malting well now I should think that it would be a fine recreation to you for to ride up and down the Markets to buy in Corn at the best season of the year and so keep Men to manage your business at home thus might you busie your self and reap the fruits and benefits of your own labour besides it would be mighty commendable and credible for you to be accounted a Man of business and if perhaps this way of dealing does not answer your expectation as to matter of profit you may soon lay it aside and betake your self to something else that you fancy will be more advantageous to you for there is a thousand ways for a Man that has ready Money to improve it and gain more by it then at the rate of six per Cent to let it out to Usury besides if you got never so little by your employment yet I would have you follow it for it will keep you from idleness which is the Mother of shame and beggery more might be said of that but I suppose you understand enough of those things if you would but practise according to your knowledge be sure to give your Children learning and when they are big enough put them out to Apprentice for then they may live without your assistance where they have gotten a good Trade if they prove good Husbands they may obtain great preferment this for your Father's sake I advise you for indeed upon his Death-bed he desired me to give you good Counsel who am A greater friend to you then yon are to your self F. G. His Friends Answer in short Dear Friend I Kindly thank you for your good advice whether I am guilty or not guilty of what you task me with Nevertheless I judge charitably of you and your well-wishes that I think no less but that you write to me out of pure love I must confess that hitherto I have not settled my self to any publick business nor have I been concerned much in worldly affairs being something cautious how I dispose of my Money but since it is your wise opinion that it will be for my advantage to put my self into some manner of dealing I 'le shew my willingness in being obedient to your commands and next acquit my self of that ignominious and reproachful companion called Idleness for it in it thing I hate had I an employment whereby I might busie my self for I have an active not a sluggish Soul as for my Children Sir it behoves me to take care of their welfare and it was always my purpose to bring them up to Learning and afterwards to put them to good Trades however I thank you for your friendly admonition and remain Your obsequious friend to serve H. I. A Letter from an Elder Brother to the Younger reproving him of Extravagancies Loving Brother 'T Is strange to me to see you run these courses except
only Jocose but be it true or false or what it will I am not much concern'd about it if this answer will not give you satisfaction you must expect no other from me however I shall not fear to come into your company at that place where I us'd to find you Yours as you please to think R. S. A Letter to chastise a near Kinsman who is given to Extravagancies Cousin John THe daily noise which rings about the Country of your extravagancies and great debaucheries causes me at present to write to you not in anger but by way of advice desiring that you would see your own folly and learn to be wiser before it be too late I had thought truly that the University had qualified you better then I perceive it has for instead of growing better as you grow older you now grow worse since you went to London I must confess I have nothing to do with your concerns only as a Relation and instead of a Father which indeed you want to give you good counsel and to desire you in time to forsake bad company for they in the end will ruine both Soul and Body and truly your Estate will soon decay if you hold on spending as you begin though at present it is large enough I wish that Women and Wine be not your Master which if you avoid I shall not doubt in the least but you will do well enough How many fine young Gentlemen have I seen that by over-drinking themseives have been brought to ruine and untimely deaths For when their brains are intoxicated and the blood inflam'd with high drinking then are they fit for all manner of vice some in that mad humour run to common Strumpets where they get the foul Discase sometimes uncurable to their everlasting shame and disgrace others in that heat of blood engage themselves by oath to kill the next Man they meet he not giving them the least affront which brings them deservedly to the publick place of execution to suffer death the due reward of such crying fins Therefore dear Cozen let the thought of these things reflect upon your Soul that you may appear odious and terrible in your eyes and apprehension and that God may turn your heart and let you see the evil of your ways is the prayers of Your ever-loving Kinsman R. W. The young Man's Answer Good Cousin I Received your Letter wherein I hear you find scandalous reports of me in the Countrey I admire who should be the Messenger that brings this ill news to you I find my reputation is very much abused and if you will be so kind to me as to let me know the Authour of it I shall make bold to require such satisfaction of him as shall become a Gentleman to demand I am apt to think that you ground those ill characters you give me upon suspicion for certainly no Man nor Woman can be so audacious as to blaze abroad such infamous and undeserved calumnies without the least ground for their so doing however I am not the first that has been abused in this Nature I thank God I know my self clear of those great enormities which are alledged against me and laid to my charge which is a real satisfaction to my self though not to you and the rest of my friends and if I may be believed before those insinnating Sycophants who value not to stain a Mans Reputation for a meals Meat I think I am as little given or addicted to keep ill company as any Gentleman in Town I cannot deny but that I do drink Wine and will do if I can git Money to buy it and I hope I shall not want so much as will purchase a bottle or two of Wine all my Life-time but if perchance I do I must then leave it off and not before yet thus much I can safely say that I never drunk so much that I was thereby deprived of my senses though I know there is too many which are guilty of that crime But as for a common Whore or Strumpet as you call them I defie and hate like the Devil neither am I a great admiver of any Woman-kind though never so honest therefore free from those debaucheries you lay to my charge However I give you many thanks for your good admonition and desire that you will be satisfied that I am not the Man that report says I am But your loving Kinsman J. S. A Letter from a Countrey Shopkeeper to a Grocer in London for Commodities Sir I Received the last goods you sent me but they were not so good as I expected whether I must impute it to be your fault in not sending the best or whether those sort of commodities are not generally so good as they used to be some other years I cannot easily resolve my self however I am not willing to harbour an ill opinion of you presently but am resolved to try you farther therefore I would desire you to send me down by the next return of our Carrier four hundred weight of the best new Raisins of the Sun two frails of Malago Raisins and the same quantity of each sort of Spice as you sent me last pray let them be all very good else you will quite disoblige me for dealing with you any more I have not sent you any Money but do intend God willing to be in Town my self about a Month hence and then I will bring Money and clear all concerns between us no more at present but that I am Your loving Friend and honest Chapman D. F. A Letter from the London Grocer to his Countrey Chapman Loving Friend I Received your Letter and according to your desire I have sent you down those Commodities you writ to me for they are all of the very best and I doubt not but will give you very good content as for those which I sent you formerly which you find fault with I was not to be blam'd for they were the very choicest I had then in my Shop and I dare boldly say as good as any Man had in London at that time though I cannot say they were as good as these are which I have sent you now you need not question but my care shall be to serve you to the best of my power as for your Money you need not so much as mention it for I know your pay to be very good and will trust you as far as you shall desire your self I would desire you to keep account in your Book what Goods you receive from me that when we come to reckon there may be no difference betwixt us thus wishing you good Markets I rest Your friend to serve you to the utmost of my power R. W. A Letter from a Citizen to his Friend in the Countrey to send him up an Apprentice Loving Countrey-man I Being now made a Freeman of London have taken a House and Shop and my greatest want at present is a Countrey Lad that would willingly put himself an
and this small Token which I have sent you which is a Barrel of Oysters I heartily recommend you to the protection of the Almighty who is the only keeper and preserver of all Men and all things I take my leave presuming to write my self Yours to serve you by night or day W. W. The Sommerset-shire Man's clownish Answer in their own Countrey Language Zir I Received a piece of Paper from you which I think Volks call a Letter but when I pulled it open I am zure I could not tell wone letter in it I gave it to wone of our Neighbours that is to zay wone of our Town that is to zay wone that dwells within two or three doors of our door a little thick way and he being a better Scholard than my present zelf made hard shift to pick out the words but the Devil a bit of zense can I vind in it you talk of obliging and vavours in my Conscience Zir you be not like me wont jot nor do I vavour you at all you also talk of gratitude and merits I 'le zwear I do not know what to make of your Lingua my Neighbour tells me that it is Latin and I wonder that you would write Latin to me you know I cannot stand under it and in truth you shall be no zervant of mine I will have no zuch zervants as for your writing our Volks put it in the Virt and vor those shells you zent I know not how you call them I een mended our do or with them and zo I thank you vor em when you come again you shall be welcome to your old Friend Dick Downright A loving Letter sent to a Gentle-woman Madam IN what a multitude of sorrows I am involved since you went out of Town no Tongue is able to express nor Pen to write Had you commanded me with open breast to have stood before you whilst you had took my own Sword and had pierced my now bleeding heart I could then more willingly have suffered a death by your hand then thus long to undergo a continual torment for want of your good company Ah Madam you know my Heart is with you how can you be so cruel to make me heartless live thus long without you can you forget those pleasant Evening hours which we together spent beguiling time which gently slid away the silent night not daring to disturb our harmless mirth and innocent delight whilst on my knees you sate my loving Arms did circle round and gently grasp your small and tender body you sometimes would ravish all my sences with a Song whilst I amazed at your warbling Notes charmed to a silence and gaz'd upon your powerful sparkling eyes whose double lustre would pierce a heart more hard and more obdurate then is the Adamant Then Madam then stealing of a kiss was not content but rob'd you still of more I kist so long that I at length perceiv'd my self to be the looser for all that time my heart and soul departed from my breast and vow'd they would possess a nobler Room then into your sweet bosom both did fly and begg'd an entertainment which you gave and seem'd to cherish them with warm desire I was content and was glad they had made choice of you to he their Guandian provided I might be a visitant to come and see they no disorders bred within your quiet breast But now alas dear Madam you have left me comfortless I am left to sigh and and breath my passion out unto the open Air without redress and cannot comfort find till you return Then Madam on my knees I beg return and give me ease unless you do intend to be my death by staving longer from me thus to the powers above I do commit you desiring you to pity him who is Your languishing Lover R. T. The Gentle-womans kind Answer My sweet Soul LEt not your passion over-much disturb your rest and quiet sleep secure and know that I an equal sharer of your grief do sigh and mourn in private all alone not daring to disclose my unknowne waes unto the open Air far fear some blast should whisp 〈◊〉 this my discontent I am therefore forc'd to bide my mistries and for a time conceal my Inward pain 〈◊〉 then undergo the angry sâ—owns of an unkind Father whom I fear would count my loving you a disobedience My study is to run a safer course and by degrees to penetrate the Breast of my indulgent Mother telling her the noble love which I bear in my bâ—som is placed on you and none but you alone shall make her Daughters Bride then on my knees I 'le beg of her to mollifie the fury of my too rigurous Father who hath forgot since be first trod the paths of youthful love My hopes are still that she will moderate his strict severity and make him yeild to gratifie our loves by his good will and make us ever happy with his blessing who knows but these my hopes may take effect My Mother loves me with a tender love and when she sees my resolution fixt to marry you and with no other Man I know she 'l never rest till she overcome my Father with entreaties to be kind Then will our meeting be again with joy But if at last my expectations sail and that my Father will not give consent we should enjoy each other yet be sure I 'le never leave my Dear until cold Death shall seize my body and from thence divide my Heart and Soul which are not in his power them I 'le bequeath to thee my dearest Love for they indeed already are thy own I know I have thy loving Heart and Soul within my Breast where they shall safely dwell My Father's cruelties shall not molest their happy being neither will I long detain them at this distance from my Love For let my aged Parents frown or smile within this Month I 'le fly into thy Arms and never part till floods of joyful tears have washt away all sorrows from our hearts and hands that nought but Death shalt part us In true constancy I remain thine alone S. V. A Letter from a Gentle-woman to her Husband who had buried her Child in the Country Loving Husband I Must now acquaint you with sorrowful and I suppose unexpected news if tears and sighs of a broken hearted Wife will give me leave to write to you which is that cruel death who favours neither infancy youth nor old Age has deprived us of our pretty sweet boy which was the only joy and comfort of our lives and truly grief has almost done its worst with me for I bewailing of this our great loss am brought so low that I think I shall scarce recover my self to be able ever more to come again and see thee his sickness held him but three days before he died else I had sent you word but now it is too late for we shall never see him more I borrowed Money of my Landlady where I am
of your opinion touching them thus hoping ere-long that you will receive as much content of my courses as you have ever doubted the contrary in the duty of my humble Love I take my leave for this time but rest always Your dutiful Son S. D. A Daughters Letter to a Mother Honoured Mother I Mast acknowledge in all duty that your came of me hath been so great that my prayers shall ever petition Heaven for your long life and happiness and will always move in obedience to your commands I have no other ways to express my filial duty and love but by conforming my self in all things to your commands and I shall think all the endeavours of my life well bestowed to gain your blessing and love which I have hitherto enjoyed let me beseech therefore and beg of you that there may be a continuation of your kind love and good affection towards me and I will endeavour all the days of my life more and more continually to engratiate my self into your favour whilst I am Your obedient and datiful Daughter J. P. The Mothers kind Answer My dear Child I Received thy kind and dutiful Letter which was no small comfort to me pray God continue thy duty and obedience to thy Loving Mother and if thou dost fear him I am sure be will encline thy heart to Wisdom which is to fear the Lord and to honour thy Parents with humble reverence and will be the only way to prolong thy days on Earth and after Death hath seized upon thy body and sent thee to the Grave yet thy name shall live after Death to Immortality and all that ever knew thee shall lament thy loss after death saying thou lived'st and did'st die a good Woman and a good Christian which will be a comfort to thy Friends that hear it and an Eternal joy and consolation to thy self in the World to come thus to the protection of him that made thee I recommand thee who am Thy loving Mother J. P. A Letter of comfort to a Friend in Adversity Sir WEakness is presently discomfited when any calamity doth befal them but I doubt not but you are strong enough to oppose your unfortunate sorrows and to make such good use of them that they shall rather confirm then discourage you in the way of vertue I know you can look upon Adversity with an eye of consideration discerning therein the hand of Providence look up then and see from whence all troubles do arise there is a blessing annexed to them if they be suffered with patience your virtue that stands inward may now be made apparent to the World in bearing your sorrow misery or any worldly affliction which refine good Men to a greater perfection I know you need not my counsel being strong in your self yet pardon my love my compassion and my counsel and accept them from Yours bound to serve you N. C. The Answer Kind Sir LIke as the Rain doth fall from a wandring Traveller when he comes dropping in even so at the receipt of your kind and cordial Letter I felt my sorrows wast and vanish from me being presently refreshed by your good counsel and all my sorrow is in this my adversity that I have nothing to requite your love withal but the poor and slender payment of thanks It is common with others whom we reckon in the number of Friends to fall off when they see their Friend is fallen into any calamity but such are no more to be accounted of then the flattering shadow that walks before us in the Sun-shine whilst your Love being built on the constant foundation of your goodness cannot be shaken with the unfortunate chances of your Friend in all Estates your Love doth know no change and this in the midst of my troubles shall bring me store of assured comfort that I am blest with a Friend so faithful unto him who is Your friend in the same fidelity C. B. A Letter sent to a Friend perswading him that he was a Cuckold Honest Charles THou knowest I love thee well and ever have done since our first acquaintance In troth I am sorry that I must now write to thee about such news as I believe will be unwelcome to thee which to be short and plain I hear tkou art a Cuckold neither do I ground my belief upon the vulgar report of others that say thy Wife is a Whore but I have seen so much by her own self that thou must needs be a Cuckold by those actions which I have observed by her in our Market Town she not thinking me to be so near her watch her a little more narrowly for the future and I believe thou wilt soon be satisfied of the truth of this matter I do not write this to make thee jealous without cause but because I would not have thee rock the Cradle when another Man got the Bastard this is all from Thy real Friend H. E. The Answer Honest Harry I Must confess that thou tellest me strange News neither is it in the least welcome to me yet as I would not be too credulous in believing any thing that may touch or stain the honour and reputation of my Wife who has been my Bedfellow thus long so in like manner I would not be blinded with sair speeches to believe her honest that is a notorious Strumpet for as thou sayest Harry by that means I may indeed Father the spurious issue of unknown Progenitors yet however I will not be jealous before I find a cause and when I have found a cause I will not be jealous long after for I will watch her as warily as ever a Cat watcht a Mouse that she shall not stir but I will Incognito attend her and then I shall quickly perceive how she behaves her self abroad she not mistrusting of my suspicion will not proceed so cunningly as otherwise she might but will continue in her wonted course without all doubt which if it should be in the ways of wickedness as God forbid it should I should be very sorry and would soon separate my self from her and if I am a Cuckold I am certain Harry you know and are acquainted with several others as may shake hands with me You know 't is said that Cuckolds are Christians and truly I am apt to think that it is many an honest Man's lot and also many a Knave 's deserved Fortune to be Cuckolded by his own Wife at home at that very instant of time that he is Cuckolding his Neighbour abroad As for my part Harry if it be so it shall not much trouble me but I am resolved to know the truth on 't for I know thy honest love and kindness to me is such that thou would'st not give me any disturbance without some grounds and for thy love I give thee hearty thanks who am Thine to my power C. D. A Fantastick Letter to a Friend to try both his Wit and patience Sir I Would be glad to see you for
my faults then I can have the considence to ask your pardon pray Sir be therefore satisfied in my protestations that I not only love but also honour you I shall endeavour so to use my time to the best advantage of my future good that you my aged Parents may have joy and comfort at all times when ever you see my face Learning I know is a most precious Jewel not to be obtained without a careful study and industry my diligence shall therefore be to the utmost of my power to acquire to my self so rich a gem which is of that great value You know that none shall ever reap the profit of your Learning but your self therefore my child seek it and thou shalt have it I am glad to hear that you are merry for it is a sign that you are in health but let me advise you Child to have a care that Vanity take not up too much Room in your mind and heart supplying that place which should contain profounder knowledge stealing away your thoughts from following better things I always Sir do consult with reason in my affairs before I pitch upon any design therefore after I have had some small time to deliberate my thoughts I shall be ready and willing to give you my opinion and best judgement in this matter Love is a thing that I never yet studied therefore you tell me strange news about it but I will consider on 't and if I find I can love any Man it shall be you as soon as any body I know of But since our Parents angry are and will not give their consents that we should marry together I am resolved if you will agree to appoint a time when privately we may make our selves happy though against their wills 'T is true I love and that you know full well but willingly would have our Friend 's good will yet since you are resolved to take me at a venture name but the time and I will surely meet you for I had rather offend all my friends then in the least to prove unkind or fickle to thee my dearest Love and only joy Admire not that I appear to be somewhat strange to your propositions for I know that you have ever been unconstant therefore I shall be careful how I settle my affections on a sudden Stoop not so low as once to condescend to act such folly for ruine will attend all those that without consideration match themselves to such extravagancy I heartily could wish the time were come that both our hearts and hands might be united I willingly would run a lawful course yet hardly can indure to stay so long why should I be delayed from that sweet enjoyment which every night I dream on without redress 't is real pleasure that I want my dear Conclusions and endings of Letters of all sorts and upon all occasions THus do I take my leave and submit my self to your Lordships pleasure who am The humblest of your Scrvitors A. B. I never thought my self more happy then when I was busie in prosecuting your Worship's just commands therefore let me beg of you to harbour no ill opinion of him who is The only admirer of your Worship's virtues B. C. Thus honoured Sir do I commit my self to your just censure knowing that you will be favourable to Your distressed Servant C. D. Much might be added worthy Sir upon this same business but time will not give me leave any longer to insist thereon I therefore at this time shall conclude and only acknowledge that I am and ever will be to my death Your faithful Friend and most humble Servant D. E. But lest I should seem troublesome in being too tedious in this my Letter I shall only add this to my former acknowledgements that I am Your most obliged and most faithful Servant E. F. Consider well on what I have writ you word of and meditate on it at your leisure which is all from Your affectionate Father F. G. What ever you have writ to me shall so deeply be lodged in my breast that nothing but death shall take it from thence which I hope will be a satisfaction to you from Sir Your dutiful Son G. H. My dearest-dearest-Soul blame me not for my suspition and jealousie of thy unconstancy but rather pardon it for it proceeds from the abundance of love of him who is The only adorer of thy beauty H. I. And if your suspition Sir be grounded out of your own imagination and all without cause I shall not desire that you should adore me but imploy your time in learning to be wiser and that is all from her who is Yours more then you deserve I. K. But to sum up all complements in one Line I am Sir Yours till death in death and after death K. L. Now since your folly I have pretty well discovered I think it is time to leave off at this time only telling you that I am Your Friend more than you are your own L. M. Therefore Sir let me desire you not to question my fidelity in this concern but rely wholly upon Your most faithful Friend M. N. Ah Madam what shall I say more that might move you to compassion a thousand Sheets of Paper would be too little to contain the full description of my sorrows which night and day I do undergo for want of the enjoyment of your Love 't is nothing else I ask dear Madam but one smile from your sweet self which if you would but grant it would revive Your languishing and disconsolate Lover N. O. That which you ask dear Sir I out of pitty grant for it never shall be said that I should so disturb so likely and so hopeful a Gentleman as your self in denying him so small a request when next you please to see me again I 'le meet you with a smile and if that won't do I 'le smile again and so continue till you shall be satisfied then I hope you will be pleased with her who is Your compassionate and most loving Friend M. P. And Joan I now have only this to tell thee that in good truth I love thee dearly who am called by the name of Robin Hog And that I may end my Letter just as you have done Robin I must tell you that I love you as well as you love me which I had almost forgot but I think such good words do never come too late this is all from her who is thine and honestly known by my proper name being my Mothers name who was born before me Joan Sow Superscriptions for Letters suitable for all Degrees and Qualities of Men and Women TO the most High and Mighty Monarch His sacred Majesty of Great Brittain Or thus To the most Gracious and Victorious Monarch Caesar Augustus Salutem Nobility To the most Illustrious Prince To his Royal Highness James Duke of York But to other Dukes thus To the most Renowned Duke To the Right Honourable Earl of c. To the
the Frolick go round Hark hark how the brids in sweet consort conspire The Lark and the Nightingale joyn And in every Grove there 's an amorous Choire While nothing but mirth is their harmless design Since the Hills and the Valleys together abound Let Mortals bear a part and the Frolick go round Methinks the god Paâ— whose Subjects we are Sits and smiles on his flowery Throne He accepts our kind offering every one Our May-pole's his Scepter our Garland his Crown Since the Hills and the Valleys together abound Let Mortals bear a part and the Frolick go round SONG III. THe delights of the Bottle and the charms of good Wine To the Powers and the Pleasures of Love must resign Though the Nights in the Joys of good drinking be past The debauches but till the next morning do last But Love's great debauch is more lasting and strong For that often lasts a Man all his Life long Love and Wine are the bonds which fasten us all The World but for these to confusion would fall Were it not for the Pleasure of Love and good Wine Mankind for each trifle their lives would resign They 'd not value dull Life but would live without thinking Nor would Kings rule the World but for Love and good Drinking SONG IV. TEll me no more you love Unless you will grant my desire E'ry thing will prove But Fuel unto my Fire 'T is not for kisses alone So long have I made my address There 's something else to be done Which you cannot chuse but guess 'T is not a charming smile That brings me my perfect joys Nor can I be beguil'd With sighs or craving eyes There is an essence within Kind Nature has clear'd the doubt Such bliss cannot prove a Sin Therefore I will find it out SONG V. Dorinda's lamentation for Amintas A Dieu to the pleasures and follies of Love For a passion more noble my fancy doth move My Shepherd is dead and I live to proclaim With sorrowful notes my Amintas his Name The Wood-Nymphs reply when they hear me complain Thou never shake see thy Amintas again For Death hath befriended him Fate hath defended him None none alive is so happy a Swain You Shepherds and Nymphs that have danc'd to his lays Come help me to sing forth Amintas's praise No Swain for the Garland durst with him dispute So sweet were his Notes whilst he sung to his Lute Then come to his Grave and your kindness pursue To weave him a Garland of Cypress and Yew For life hath forsaken him Death has o'retaken him No Swain again will be ever so true Then leave me alone to my wretched Estate I lost him too soon and I lov'd him too late You Ecchoes and Fountains my witnesses prove How deeply I sigh for the loss of my Love And now of our Pan whom we chiefly adore This favour I never will cease to implore That I may go above And there enjoy my Love And live more happy than ever before The Catholick Lover SONG VI. T Is not enough great gods 't is not enough That I one single beauty love No no Eternal powers if you Envy the peace my mind once knew If 't be my Fate to be a slave If I must love and such passions have Let not one Quiver or one Bow One glance one dart one Arrow do Let many eyes my freedom break Let many chains me Captive make 'T is Caesar-like From many wounds a death to take SONG VII LOng since fair Clarinda my passion did move Whilst under my friendship I cover'd my Love But now I must speak though I fear 't is in vain 'T is too late in my Death to dissemble my pain In telling my Love though I fear she 'l deny I shall ease my sad heart and more quietly dye Ah sure by my eyes you my passion might find No friendship e're languish'd or look'd half so kind Though I said not I lov'd you might see it too plain Friends use not to sigh nor to speak with such pain Each touch of your hand such a warmth did inspire My Face was all flam'd and my heart all a fire My thoughts are so tender my Tongue cannot tell What bliss wou'd be yours could you love half so well Let the thing with a Title our property move Let him have the shew and let me have the Love I have lov'd you so long that if now you delay You 'l owe me so much as you never can pay SONG VIII WHat fighs and groans now fill my breast And suffer me to take no rest For my Carmelia Oh she 's gone And left me here to sigh alone But is she dead Then I 'le go see If in her Grave there 's room for me Oh cruel Fate that so design'd To take her and leave me behind And thou Oh death whose quick Alarms Have snatcht her rudely from my Arms Canst thou not find a way for me To my Carmelia's brest to flee Dye then Anselmio why dost stay Since thy Carmelia leads the way Oh! die yet faster do not live That dearest Nymph for to survive Now dearest Soul I come I fly Always to live with thee I die SONG IX VVHy should Friends and Kindred gravely make thee Wrong thy self and cruelly forsake me Be still my dearest Mistress hang Relations Love 's above their dull considerations Let 'em live and heap up treasure Whilst that thee and I enjoy our pleasure He that seeks a Mistress in a portion Puts himself to use with damn'd extortion If he must be brib'd to copulation Pox upon his Love 't is out of fashion Where we like no matter what the estate is 'T is not Love except we shew it Gratis How to see the Miser have I wondred Weighing out his passion by the Hundred Ne're consulting Birth nor Education Vertue without Wealth 's but prophanation Be she old or ugly 't is no matter So she is but rich he 'l venture at her Joynture is a sordid Lay-invention Quite beside our Nature and Intention When we wou'd agree it makes resistance Finding tricks to keep us at a distance Then who poorly make a new Election Suffers wealth to trouble his affection SONG X. A Rant MAke a noise Pull it out And drink about Brave Boys T'other Cup Fill the Glass You sober Ass Turn up Why so sad Wee 'le have more Upon the score My Lad Let the Rabble Prate and babble Fontre Diable We will all be mad Sing a Catch Serenade In Masquerade The Watch Prittle prattle Tittle tattle Give 'em battle They shall find their match See they come Staves and Pikes Who ever strikes Strike home Come Boys draw Fairly meet 'Em in the street Saw Saw Bravely done Cut and slash The Weapons clash They run How they wallow Let us follow Hoop and hallow For the day is won All 's our own Every Crack Must on her back Lye down Let us muster In a cluster Huff and bluster For we rule the Town Play along Sing and
Look down you 'l discover Here 's a faithful young vigorous Lover With a heart full as true As e're languisht for you Here 's a faithful young vigorous Lover The heart that was once a Monarch in 's breast Is now your poor Captive and can have no rest 'T wil never give over But about your sweet bosom will hover Dear Miss let it in By Heaven 't is no sin Here 's a faithful young vigorous Lover SONG LXII CLoris when you disperse your influence Your dazling beams are quick and clear You so surprize and wound the sence So bright a Miracle you appear Admiring Mortals you astonish so No other Deity they know But think that all Divinity 's below One charming look from your Illustrious face Is able to subdue mankind So sweet so powerful a grace Makes all Men Lovers but the blind Nor can they freedom by resistance gain For each embraces the soft chain And never struggles with the pleasing pain SONG LXIII VVHen first my free heart Was inspir'd by desire So loft was the wound And so gentle the fire My sighs were so sweet And so pleasant the smart I pitty'd the slave That had ne're lost his heart He thinks himself happy And free but alas He 's far from that Heaven Which Lovers possess In Nature was nothing That I could compare With the beauty of Chloris I thought her so fair A Wit so Divine All her sayings did fill A Goddess she seem'd And I thought of her still With a zeal more enflam'd And a passion more true Then a Martyr in Flames For Religion can shew More vertues and graces I found in her mind Then the Schools can invent Or the gods e're design'd She seem'd to be mine By each glance of her eye If Mortals might aim At a blessing so high Each day with new favours New hopes she did give But alas what is wisht We too soon do believe With awful respect While I lov'd I admir'd But fear'd to attempt What so much I desir'd In a moment my Joys And my hopes were destroy'd A Shepherd more daring Fell on and enjoy'd Yet in spight of my Fate And the pains I endure In a second Amour I will seek for my cure SONG LXIV VVHat does the fair Clariza mean To tantalize her Servant so She frowns and sweetly smiles agen Whence these alternate Fancies flow Flong to know Though they for trivial causes are Each glance to me 's a several Fate My Heart 's the Ship her Eye the Star The Port it Sails to love or hate Which on her wait When sad Aurora's clouded dress Seems to portend a stormy day The dying flow'rs their heads depress But take new Life from Sol's bright Ray I fare like they Though Love has made me Reason's Foe Some weak reflexions still remain Which her deriding scorn do show By which my faults and her disdain I see too plain Yet let her know that still I love If that 's presumptuous I adore But if my Fate uncertain prove And she mysterious as before I 'le love no more To all but that Divinest she My flame shall ever be unknown If just contempt my purchase be My ill success I 'le never own To more than one Neither favour nor force nor fear nor delight Shall make me discover if she will but Write SONG LXV BE jolly my friend For the Money we spend On Women and Wine to our selves we do lend The Ladies embraces And our Carbuncled Faces Will gain us more credit then the Muses or the Graces Then Sirrah be quicker And bring us more Liquor We 'l have nothing to do with Physician or Vicar We 'le round with our Bowls Till our passing Bell toles And trust no such Quacks with our Bodies or Souls SONG LXVI CEase Chloris cease to wonder why My cheeks so pale so dim my eye Admire no more my shortned breath No more foretel m'approaching death For now it only lies in you To make your Omen false or true From the Physician you in vain Inquire the Nature of my pain In vain you weep for when you please You only you can give me ease And none will think you truly grieve For one you care not to relieve By meaner passions you endure What by a nobler you may cure Change but your Pity into Love And so the cause in both remove This by a strange discovery You 'l cheat the World yourself and me SONG LXVII AH fading Joy How quickly art thou past Yet we thy ruine hast And what too soon would die help to destroy As if the cares of humane Life were few We seek out new And follow Fate which does too fast pursue In vain does Natures bounteous hand supply What pievish mortals to themselves deny See how on ev'ry Bough the Birds express In wild Notes their happiness Not anxious how to get or spare They on their Mother Nature lay their care Why then shou'd Man the Lord of all below Such troubles chuse to know As none of all his Subjects undergo Chorus Hark hark the Waters fall And with a murmuring sound Dash dash upon the ground To gentle slumbers call SONG LXVIII A Curse on the Zealous and Ignorant crew That languish all day And with passion obey The senceless decrees that Platonicks pursue How poor and unhappy Unhappy are those pretenders Who fearless of scandal or vulgarly shame Diminish their flame But blest is the Man that with freedom enjoys A beauty whose eyes Like the Stars in the Skies Produce new delights till his Appetite cloys How happy unhappy How happy are these pretenders Who fearless of scandal or vulgar reproach Pursues his debauch Elizium's a grief and a torment compar'd To that we can prove In enjoyment of Love Where Lovers in raptures still meet a reward The tales of the Ancient Of future delights are ungrounded In loves kind fruition where Souls have access Oh there 's the true bliss SONG LXIX A Dieu my Cordelia my dearest adieu No passion more slighted was ever more true No torment severer than this could you prove To enjoyn him by absence that 's chain'd by your love Subdu'd by your charms y'inflam'd my desire Till a spark from your eyes set me all on fire O cruelty shown no offence but Love known Exil'd and out-law'd by a hard hearted Stone SONG LXX OH name not the day least my senses reprove And curse my poor heart for the knowledge of Love Ah the ignorant fate of a fearful young Lover When a sign is return'd not to have Wit to discover To delay a kind Nymph from her hour of design Is to dig for a Treasure and sink in the Mine A Musical Instruction for a Young Lady SONG LXXI TO play upon the Vial if A Virgin will begin The first of all she must know her Cliff And all the stops therein Her Prick she must hold long enough Her Back-falls gently take Her touch must gentle be not rough At each stroke she must shake She must unto her
Love that poyson grown Which inflicts those fatal Darts Which the god of Love alone Did form for false rebellious hearts And must none then approach thy Love But those who Martyrdom will prove Hadst thou thy liberty preserv'd And still a nobler Soveraign been At what a rate hadst thou been serv'd When all thy Slaves had Rivals been Nay gods themselves had quit their sway Proud of the glory to obey But stay my passion grows too bold Seeking your honour thus to stain It shews that Loyalty grows cold When Subjects for reward complain Henceforth my passions shall declare No perfect Love without despair SONG CIII Man WHy Phillis to me so untrue and unkind Remember the Vow which you made Though Love cannot see let not honour be blind Whereon is the other betray'd Woman Though Sir to your Bed true Allegiance I vow'd I am not oblig'd by that Oath No longer then you keep both constant and true The same Vow obligeth us both Man Fair Nymph did you feel but those passions I bear My Love you would never suspect A heart made of steel must needs love the fair And what we love cannot neglect Chorus Then since we love both Let us both be agreed And seal both our Loves with a kiss From breaking our Oath We shall both then be freed A Princess shall envy our bliss SONG CIV SInce Coelia's my Foe To a Desart I 'le go Where some River For ever Shall Eccho my Woe The Trees will appear More relenting than her The Morning Adorning Each Leaf with a Tear When I make my sad moan To the Rocks all alone From each hollow Will follow A pityful groan But with silent disdain She requites all my pain To my mourning Returning No answer again Then Coelia adieu When I cease to pursue You 'l discover No Lover Was ever so true Your sad Shepherd flies From those dear cruel eyes Who not seeing His being Decays and he dies But it 's better to run From the Fate we can't shun Then for ever To endeavour What cannot be won What ye Gods have I done That Amintas alone Is so treated And hated For loving but one SONG CV DIsputes daily arise and errours grow bolder Philosophers prattle how greedy's the Miser The more we should know then by being the older But plainly 't appears there 's no body wiser He that spends what he has and wisely drinks all 'T is he is the Man Mathematical SONG CVI. NO no 't is in vain Though I sigh and complain Yet the secret I 'le never reveal The wrack shall not tear it From my Breast but I 'le bear it To the Grave where it ever shall dwell Oh would that the gods had created her low And plac'd thee poor Hylas above Then then I a present might freely bestow Of a heart that is all over Love Like the damn'd from the Fire We may gaze and admire Yet never can hope to be blest Oh the pangs of a Lover That dares not discover The poison that 's lodg'd in his Breast Like a Deer that is wounded I bleeding run on And fain I the torture would hide But Oh 't is in vain for where ever I run The bloody Dart sticks in my side SONG CVII HAd Daphne Honour Wealth or Fame Thou hadst some colour for thy flame Or were she young she might excite Thy lustful thoughts to appetite Were she or beautiful or good She unawares might fire thy blood But being neither rich young chast nor fair To love is Dotage Phrensie to Despair SONG CVIII NO Joys like to those of a new married Bride Who freely does make her own choice Where nothing but innocent Love doth abide Whilst with her kind Bedfellow she doth rejoyce Long may they continue in such pleasant charms With faithful embroces in each others Arms. The spritely young Bridegroom tasts of this bliss The day with their Friends they do spend At night with great freedom they hug and they kiss Both thinking that night will soon have an end Long may they continue in such pleasant charms With saithful embraces in each others Arms. The fruits of their pleasure they both do desire Which after nine Months they may find Both hope for an Off-spring just like the own Sire And pray to Lucina that she will be kind Long may they continue in such pleasant charms With faithful embraces in each others Arms. He never is pleas'd when his Bride 's out of sight She likewise his presence doth crave So great is their Love and so sweet their delight One absent the other no pleasure can have Long may they continue in such pleasant charms With faithful embraces in each others Arms. A happy success to so faithful a pair Can never be wanting be sure Much wealth and great honour to such as they are Will flow in a pace and for ever endure Long may they continue in such pleasant charms With faithful embraces in each others Arms. Long life will attend them till hoary old Age Does call them to lye down to rest Cold Death with cold blood then will gently engage And send them to 'th Grave and their Souls to be blest Thus still they continue secure from harms Both lye in one Coffin in each others Arms. That couple is blest who thus happily meet Prosperity hedges them round Their embraces are pleasant their kisses are sweet Delights of all sorts all their Life will abound Long may they continue in such pleasant charms With faithful embraces in each others Arms. But those that do marry for Money not Love Will never have peace in their mind They unto each other a sorrow will prove And troublesome days they for ever will find May those never meet who do marry for Gold Where Love at a price in a Market is sold In discord and envy they ever will live Each day will beget a new strife Whilst angry words they to each other give The Wife blames the Man and the Man blames his Wife May those never meet who do marry for Gold Where Love at a price in a Market is sold She cryes he don 't love her he swears she 's a scold She finds his affections are dull Which causes her love in like manner grow cold She vows to be pievish as he to the full May those never meet who do marry for Gold Where Love at a price in a Market is sold And since from her Husband she finds no delight It makes her abroad for to range She resolves in her heart to keep out of his sight For Women by Nature are subject to change May those never meet who do marry for Gold Where Love at a price in a Market is sold Then jealous he grows which perplexes his Soul And out of revenge she does horn him Whatever he says she resolves to controul And replies with a frown he 's a fool and she scorns him May those never meet who do marry for Gold Where Love at a Price in a Market is sold
to be fooling Argues how rude you are In Cupid's Schooling Disdain begets a smile scorn draws us nigh 'T is cause I would and cannot makes me try Chloris I 'de have thee wise When Gallants view thee Courting do thou despise Fly those pursue thee Fast moves an Appetite Makes hunger greater Who 's stinted of delight Falls to 't the better Be coy and kind betimes be smooth and rough And buckle now and then and that 's enough SONG CLVII PHilander and Sylvia a gentle young pair Whose business was loving and kissing his care In a sweet smelling Grove went smiling along Till the youth gave a vent to his heart with his Tongue Ah Sylvia said he and sigh'd when he spoke Your cruel resolve will you never revoke No never she said how never he cry'd 'T is the damn'd that shall only that sentence abide She turn'd her about to look all around Then blusht and her pritty eyes cast on the ground She kist his warm cheeks and then play'd with his neck And urg'd that his reason his passion should check Ah Philander she said 't is a dangerous bliss Ah never ask more and I 'le give thee a kiss How never he cry'd and then shiver'd all o're No never she said and then trip'd to a Bow'r She stopt at the Wicket he cry'd let me in She answer'd I wou'd if it were not a sin Heaven sees and the gods will chastise the poor head Of Philander for this straight trembling he said Heaven sees I confess but uo Tell-tales are there She kist him and cry'd you 're an Atheist my dear And shou'd you prove false I shou'd never endure How never he cry'd and straight backwards he threw her Her delicate body he clasp'd in his Arms. He kist her he prest her heap'd charms upon charms He cry'd shall I now no never she said Your will you shall never enjoy till I am dead Then as if she were dead she slept and lay still Yet even at death she bequeath'd him a smile Which emboldned the youth his charms to supply Which he bore still about him to cure those that die SONG CLVIII TAke oh take those lips away That so sweetly were forsworn And those Eyes the break of day Lights that do mislead the Morn But my kisses bring again Seals of Love but seal'd in vain SONG CLIX. WIth an old Song made by an old ancient pate Of an old worshipful Gentleman who had a great estate Who kept an old house at a bountiful rate And an old Porter to relieve the Poor at his gate Like an old Courtier of the Queens And the Queens old Courtier With an old Lady whose anger good words asswages Who every quarter pays her old Servants their wages Who never knew what belong'd to Coach-men Foot-men and Pages But kept twenty old Fellows with blew Coats and badges Like an old Courtier of the Queens And the Queens old Courtier With an old study fill'd full of Learned Books With an old reverend Parson you may know him by his looks With an old Buttery Hatch worn quite off the hooks And an old Kitchen which maintains half a dozen Cooks Like an old Courtier of the Queens And the Queens old Courtier With an old Hall hung round about with Guns Pikes and Bows With old Swords and Bucklers which have born many shrewd blows And an old Frisado Coat to cover his Worship's Trunk Hose And a cup of old Sherry to comfort his copper Nose Like an old Soldier of the Queens And the Queens old Courtier With a good old fashion when Christmass is come To call in his Neighbours with Bagpipe and Drum And good chear enough to furnish every old room And old Liquor able to make a Gat speak and a wise Man dumb Like an old Courtier of the Queens And the Queens old Courtier With an old Huntsman a Faulconer and a kennel of Hounds Which never hunted nor hawkt but in his own grounds Who like an old wise Man kept himself still within his own bounds And when he dy'd gave every child a thousand old pounds Like an old Courtier of the Queens And the Queens old Courtier But to his eldest Son his House and Lands he assign'd Charging him in his Will to keep the old bountiful mind To love his good old Servants and to Neighbours be kind But in th' ensuing you shall hear how he was enclin'd Like a young Courtier of the Kings And the King 's new Courtier Like a young Gallant newly come to his Land And keeps a brace of whores at his own command And takes up a thousand pounds upon 's own Land And lieth drunk in a new Tavern till he can neither go nor stand Like a young Courtier of the Kings And the King 's young Courtier With a neat Lady that 's brisk and fair Who never knew what belong'd to good house-keeping or care But buys seven Fans to play with the wanton Air And seventeen or eighteen dressings of other Mens Hair Like a young Courtier of the Kings And the King 's young Courtier With a new Hall built where the old one stood Wherein is burnt neither Coal nor Wood And a Shuffle-board Table smooth and red as blood Hung round with pictures which do the Poor little good Like a young Courtier of the Kings And the King 's young Courtier With a new study stuff'd full of Pamphlets and Plays With a new Chaplain that swears faster then he prays With a new Buttery Hatch that opens once in four or five days With a new French Cook to make Kickshaws and Toys Like a young Courtier of the Kings And the King 's young Courtier With a new fashion when Chrisimas is come With a new Journey up to London we must be gone And leave no body at home but our new Porter John Who relieves the Poor with a thump on the back with a stone Like a young Courtier of the Kings And the King 's young Courtier With a Gentleman Usher whose carriage is complete With a Foot-man Coach-man Page to carry Meat With a waiting Gentle-woman whose dressing is very neat Who when the Master has din'd let 's the Servants not eat Like a young Courtier of the Kings And the King 's young Courtier With a new honour bought with his Fathers old gold That many of his Father's old Mannors had sold And this is the occasion that most Men do hold That good House-keeping is now grown so cold Like a young Courtier of the Kings And the King 's young Courtier SONG CLX PHillis I pray Why did you say That I did not adore you I durst not sue As others do Nor talk of love before you Should I make known My flame you 'd frown No tears could e're appease you 'T is better I Should silent die Then talking to displease you SONG CLXI A Way with the causes of riches and cares That eat up our Spirits and shorten our years No pleasure can be In state nor degree But it 's mingled