Wit at a Venture [R19699]

DMI number:

1780

Publication Date:

1674

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R19699

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:12290027

Shelfmark:

EEBO

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse and Collection of songs

Format:

Octavo

Content/Publication

First Line:

How sweet are the youthful adventures of Love

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pp. 1-2

Poem Title:

Loves Tryal. A Song.

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What a giddy fond Lover is he

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pp. 2-4

Poem Title:

The Generous Lover. A Song.

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Cupid some exploits to try

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p. 4

Poem Title:

A Song.

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Love in rambling once astray

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p. 5

Poem Title:

The Surprising Lover.

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Turn away those sparkling Jems

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p. 6

Poem Title:

To Silvia, on the Tyranny of her Looks. A Song.

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Phillis we have now too long

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p. 7-8

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A Dialogue between Strephon and Phillis.

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After a long and continent repose

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pp. 8-12

Poem Title:

The Knight Adventurer.

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When first in Loves Court fair Eminda was try'd

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pp. 12-14

Poem Title:

Love's Conquest. A Song.

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There is no Object to my eye

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p. 14

Poem Title:

The Protestation. A Song.

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See from yon' Palace where the gate's set wide

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pp. 15-19

Poem Title:

The Nuptial Triumph.

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Phillis confirm the passion you own

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p. 20

Poem Title:

A Song.

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What fancies of pleasure does Love all alone

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pp. 20-21

Poem Title:

Pleasing Hopes. A Song.

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Under this Stone Moll Standford lyes

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pp. 21-22

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a merry Wife of Windsor, that died of the Stone in her Bladder.

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Sure you by Amorous flames were ne're possest

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pp. 22-23

Poem Title:

To Mistriss E.m. upon his going to Sea.

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Deceitful Nature all those youthful Joyes

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pp. 23-24

Poem Title:

Beauties Frailty.

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Live one in heart so long till time forget

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pp. 24-25

Poem Title:

Epithalamium.

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Go friendly fame and tell his honours due

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p. 25

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Acrostic on on his lamented friend G.I. who after long service at Sea, was accidentally shot by his Friend.

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Come honest Sexton take thy spade

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p. 26

Poem Title:

The tyr'd Pilgrim.

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As Saints when they a Vision spie

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p. 27

Poem Title:

Loves Exstasie.

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Hark how in yonder shady Grove

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p. 28

Poem Title:

Philomels Call. A Song.

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Ah Cruel eyes that first enflam'd

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pp. 29-30

Poem Title:

Impatience. A Song.

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When fair Miradona first honour'd my sight

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pp. 30-31

Poem Title:

Surprising Favour. A New-Years Gift.

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Bid me no more Good Night because

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p. 30

Poem Title:

Good Night.

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James Shirley

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Tell gay Spring and let me know

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pp. 31-32

Poem Title:

On his Mistriss walking in the Garden.

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Too weak are human eyes to pry

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p. 32

Poem Title:

The Morallist.

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The young the fair the chast the good

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p. 33

Poem Title:

The murdered Beauty.

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Oh that I ne're had known the pow'r of Love

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pp. 34-35

Poem Title:

The Desperate Lover.

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Beauty that it self can kill

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pp. 35-36

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Must I be silent no and yet forbear

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pp. 36-37

Poem Title:

The Silent Lover.

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So wretched are the sick of Love

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pp. 37-38

Poem Title:

Distempered Love.

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Cease warring thoughts and let her brain

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pp. 38-39

Poem Title:

On his Mistriss asleep. A Song

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To arms to arms the Heroes cry

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p. 39

Poem Title:

The Souldiers Song.

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Heav'n guard my fair Dorinda some that know

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pp. 40-41

Poem Title:

To Dorinda after Absence.

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How the vain world ambitiously aspires

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p. 40

Poem Title:

Vain Ambition.

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How fraility makes us to our wrong

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pp. 41-42

Poem Title:

A Moral Song.

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Rise golden Fame and give thy name a birth

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p. 42

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between Fame and Virtue.

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Hang formal debates let's fill up our bowls

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pp. 43-44

Poem Title:

The Boon Companion. A Song

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Look on those Jewels that abound

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pp. 44-45

Poem Title:

Plea for Enjoying.

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Come drawer some wine send a slave from below

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p. 45

Poem Title:

The brave Bubber. A Song.

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How vast an extent has Love's Empire and Throne

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p. 49 [46]

Poem Title:

Love's Universe. A Song.

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How strangely the passion and spirits retire

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pp. 47-48

Poem Title:

Moderation. A Song.

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First Line:

To what modest grief is a lover confind

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pp. 48-49

Poem Title:

Leisure. A Song.

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First Line:

May all felicity betide

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pp. 49-50

Poem Title:

Epithalamium on E.W. and R.S.

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So have I Cynthia seen her face to hide

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pp. 49[46]-47

Poem Title:

On a Lady masked, supposed to be Dorinda.

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Black eyes in your orbs do lye

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pp. 50-51

Poem Title:

Black eyes and enticing frowns. To Lucina.

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James Howell

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As the parch'd field doth thirst for rain

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p. 52

Poem Title:

Grief for Absence.

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As to the Pole the Lilly bends

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pp. 52-53

Poem Title:

Magnetick Influence.

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About the light as the poor Fly

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pp. 53-54

Poem Title:

On Silvia.

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First Line:

Apelles Prince of Painters did

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p. 53

Poem Title:

Mistriss J.K. A Surprisal.

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O Thyrsis if that Saint-like soul you knew

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pp. 54-55

Poem Title:

Praise and Dispraise. Thyrsis and Alexis.

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This lower World but like a mighty Inn

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pp. 55-56

Poem Title:

A brief Survey of this disproportion'd World.

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See how the sottish World adores

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pp. 56-57

Poem Title:

Double Influence.

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I told young Jenny I lov'd her

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pp. 57-58

Poem Title:

A Song.

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How great a slave is active man

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pp. 58-59

Poem Title:

The pleasant Toyl.

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I tell thee Jack as I zought out

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pp. 59-65

Poem Title:

A Ballade on a Countrey Wedding.

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Among the various youthful Sports

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pp. 65-71

Poem Title:

The Virtue of a Hot-house.

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First Line:

Why should Celinda disapprove

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pp. 71-72

Poem Title:

To Celinda. A Song.

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First Line:

Go on true heart pursue the prise

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pp. 72-73

Poem Title:

Love's Assurance. A Song.

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First Line:

Forbear silly hearts you insult but in vain

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pp. 73-74

Poem Title:

The Womens Defence. A Song.

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Teach me dear Nymph to be content

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pp. 74-75

Poem Title:

Celadon and Philomel. A Dialogue.

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O Name not the day lest my sences reprove

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p. 76

Poem Title:

Omitting Enjoyment. A Song.

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Drink Wine and be wise

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pp. 77-78

Poem Title:

The Tavern Huff. A Song.

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First Line:

Tis pity the passion those eyes do create

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pp. 78-79

Poem Title:

The Considerate Lover. A Song.

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Triumphant Beauty whose o're-ruling fate

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pp. 79-80

Poem Title:

Beauties Prerogative. A Song.

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First Line:

Come fairest through the fleeting skie

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pp. 80-82

Poem Title:

A Rapture.

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To bed ye two in one united go

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p. p83-84

Poem Title:

Epithalamium.

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First Line:

Unhappy he whose fortune lower lyes

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p. 83

Poem Title:

The Brave Lover.

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When her poor Metaphor heavens radient eye

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pp. 84-85

Poem Title:

On the sight of my true Dorinda Masked.

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Rise Aristarchus and erect a Scheme

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pp. 85-87

Poem Title:

The Concern.

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O That my sould were raptur'd into Verse

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pp. 88-90

Poem Title:

An ELEGY. On the most lamented Death of the brave and worthy Hero, Edw. Earl of Sandwich, Lord Vice Admiral of England.

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Could each brave Hero with his conqu'ring Fame

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pp. 91-94

Poem Title:

An ELEGY On the Death of the Valiant Sir Edw. Spragg

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