The Harmony of the muses, or, The gentlemans and ladies choisest recreation full of various, pure and transcendent wit : containing severall excellent poems, some fancies of love, some of disdain, and all the subjects incident to the passionate affections either of men or women / heretofore written by those unimitable masters of learning and invention, Dr. Joh. Donn, Dr. Hen. King, Dr. W. Stroad [et al].
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- The Harmony of the muses, or, The gentlemans and ladies choisest recreation full of various, pure and transcendent wit : containing severall excellent poems, some fancies of love, some of disdain, and all the subjects incident to the passionate affections either of men or women / heretofore written by those unimitable masters of learning and invention, Dr. Joh. Donn, Dr. Hen. King, Dr. W. Stroad [et al].
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- 1654.
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"The Harmony of the muses, or, The gentlemans and ladies choisest recreation full of various, pure and transcendent wit : containing severall excellent poems, some fancies of love, some of disdain, and all the subjects incident to the passionate affections either of men or women / heretofore written by those unimitable masters of learning and invention, Dr. Joh. Donn, Dr. Hen. King, Dr. W. Stroad [et al]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31143.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.
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What gifts do Kine from the rude Bull enforce?
What rate demands the Mare fro the proud horse?
Or from the Ram the Ewe? they couple twice,
Ere once they do debate upon a price;
Women have learn'd alone to bargain well,
Their pleasures born with them alone they sell,
Alone they prize the night, and at a rate
Chaffer themselvs with strangers; O vild state!
Alone for mutuall pastime, coyn they crave,
And e'r they sport, ask first, What shall I have?
That which delighteth both, to which both run,
And (but by joint assistance) is not done,
The pleasures which on even terms we try,
Why should one party sell, the other buy?
Why should the sweets which we alike sustain,
To me be double loss, thee double gain?
That which comes freely, much by that we set,
Thou giv'st it me, and I am still in debt;
Love that is hir'd, is plainly sold and bought,
Thou hast thy price, and then I owe thee nought:
Then O ye fair ones, all such thoughts expell,
What Nature freely gives you, spare to sell;
Let not your bodies to base lust be lent,
Goods lewdly got, are ever loosly spent.