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A WELL - WISHING TO A PLACE OF PLEASURE . To an excellent new Tune .
See the building Flora springing Where whilst my mistris lived in Is erer bringing
Was pleasures essence , Dame Venus ease . ? See how it droopeth Oh see the ...
A WELL - WISHING TO A PLACE OF PLEASURE . To an excellent new Tune .
See the building Flora springing Where whilst my mistris lived in Is erer bringing
Was pleasures essence , Dame Venus ease . ? See how it droopeth Oh see the ...
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SEE the building which whilest ' my Mistress lined in was pleasures asseince 2 !
see how it droopeth , & how Nakedly it ... Oh ! may the grasse be euer greene
wheron wee , lying , haue oft beene tryinge More seuerall wayes of pleasure then
...
SEE the building which whilest ' my Mistress lined in was pleasures asseince 2 !
see how it droopeth , & how Nakedly it ... Oh ! may the grasse be euer greene
wheron wee , lying , haue oft beene tryinge More seuerall wayes of pleasure then
...
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Stolen waters are sweet ; THE man that hath a hansome wiffe & keepes her as a
treasure , it is my cheefest ioy of liffe to haue her to my pleasure ; 4 ( page 105 . )
unwatched , are nought . But if that man regardless were as tho 1 he carde not ...
Stolen waters are sweet ; THE man that hath a hansome wiffe & keepes her as a
treasure , it is my cheefest ioy of liffe to haue her to my pleasure ; 4 ( page 105 . )
unwatched , are nought . But if that man regardless were as tho 1 he carde not ...
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But hee her wast still held as ffast as shee was constant to her tune , though
neere soe fayre her speechers were , " forgoe me & c . ” No , he held her fast . 24
What better time than now ? " 28 He demands , “ what time or pleasure can there
be ...
But hee her wast still held as ffast as shee was constant to her tune , though
neere soe fayre her speechers were , " forgoe me & c . ” No , he held her fast . 24
What better time than now ? " 28 He demands , “ what time or pleasure can there
be ...
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... with which some of the female ones are depicted , though they cannot delight (
as at the time ) by the happiness of their application , may yet be perused with
pleasure as specimens of poetic excellence , ingenious Hattery , or adroit satire .
... with which some of the female ones are depicted , though they cannot delight (
as at the time ) by the happiness of their application , may yet be perused with
pleasure as specimens of poetic excellence , ingenious Hattery , or adroit satire .
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| Title | Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Volume 4 Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Loose and Humorous Songs, Frederick James Furnivall |
| Author | Thomas Percy |
| Editors | Frederick James Furnivall, John Wesley Hales |
| Contributor | British Library |
| Publisher | N. Trübner, 1867 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 2 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 127 pages |
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