Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses
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- Title
- Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses
- Publication
- London :: Printed by R[ichard] H[odgkinson and Thomas Paine] for Humphry Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill,
- 1640.
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- Subject terms
- English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
- Epigrams, English -- Early works to 1800.
- Epitaphs -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Proverbs, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15606.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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More by your number then your light;
The common people of the skies:
What are ye when the moon shall rise?
You violets that first appeare,
By your purple mantle known;
Like proud virgins of the yeere,
As if the Spring were all your own;
What are you when the rose is blown?
You wandring chaunters of the wood,
That fill the ayre with natures layes:
Thinking your passions understood,
By weak accents, where's your praise,
When Philomell her voyce shall raise:
So when my Princesse shall be seen,
In sweetnes of her lookes and mind:
By vertues first, then choyce a Queen,
Tell me, was she not design'd,
Th' eclipse and glory of her kind?