Musa Proterva; Love-Poems of the Restoration (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure pass'd: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die? By Sir George Etherege. (A song contributed to Nahum Tate's A Duke and no Duke, 1685.) TELL me no more I am deceived: While Silvia seems so kind, And takes such care to be believed, The cheat I fear to find. To flatter me should falsehood lie Concealed in her soft youth, A thousand times I'd rather die Than see the unhappy truth. My love all malice shall outbrave, Let fops in libels rail; If she the appearances will save, No scandal shall prevail. She makes me think I have her heart: How much for that is due? Tho' she but act the tender part The joy she gives is true. By Sir Car Scroope.1 AS Amoret with Phillis sat One evening on the plain, And saw the charming Strephon wait To tell the nymph his pain; The threat'ning danger to remove, She whispered in her ear, "Ah Phillis, if you would not love, This shepherd do not hear; None ever had so strange an art His passion to convey Into a list'ning virgin's heart And steal her soul away: 1 Sir Car Scroope contributed this song to Etherege's The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter, 1676, for which play he also wrote a prologue. Prefixed to the verses is a note--"Song by Sir C. S." (In the 1722 edition of Sir Charles Sedley's Works the song is found, but not in ed. 1702.) H Fly, fly betimes for fear you give Occasion for your Fate " "In vain," said she, "in vain I strive, Alas 'tis now too late." From Mrs. Behn's Abdelazar, or the Moor's Revenge, 1671. T OVE in fantastic triumph sate.--' Whilst bleeding hearts around him flowed, For whom fresh pains he did create And strange tyrannic power he showed. From thy...