TO LEONORA. ENCORE. I. EASE, Leonora, cease to mourn, Nor let predestinating tears II. 'Tis but the last long winter night, Which thy kind eyes shall ever cheer, 10 ON A PRETTY MADWOMAN. W I. HILE mad Ophelia we lament, Since what for her condition's meant II. For if 'tis happiness to be, From all the turns of fate, Misunderstand her state. III. The fates may do whate'er they will, Insensible of good, or ill, Ophelia is Ophelia still, Be fortune cross or kind. IV. Then make with reason no more noise, Since what should give relief, The quiet of our mind destroys, Or a dead-ebb of grief. 10 20 ABSENCE. I. HAT a tedious day is past! Loving, thinking, wishing, weeping; Gods! if this be not the last, Take a life not worth my keeping. II. Love, ye gods, is life alone! In the length is little pleasure: We shall ne'er complain of measure. THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO PHYLLIS. I. HE circling months begin this day, And long-breath'd time which ne'er Refits his wings, and shoots away, II. Who feels the force of female eyes, III. But I can pay no offering, Since I had but a heart to bring, IV. Yet we may give, for custom sake, A SONG. I. OR God's-sake-nay, dear sir, II. Pray give over, O! fie, Pish, leave off your fooling, Forbear, or I'll cry, I hate this rude doing. III. Let me die if I stay, Does the devil possess you? Your hand take away, Then perhaps I may bless you. 20 ΤΟ ON SNUFF. OVE once resolv'd (the females to degrade) To propagate their sex without their aid. His brain conceiv'd, and soon the pangs and throes He felt, nor could th' unnatural birth disclose: TO CELIA. AN EPIGRAM. OU need not thus so often pray, |