Ti his Love upon New-years Even, when they were upon parting.
IF you will leave me, leave me, dear,
Or now or never with the Year,
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 May 15, 2024.
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For now the Year is at an end,
And now each friend renews his friend,
And now the date of love expires,
And now the time truth requires,
And now your friends envy at me,
And now it must or never be.
If you do mean to love me, dear,
Begin to morrow with the year,
For then doth love it self renew,
And every friend perform his due,
Then to and fro the Gifts are sent,
And paid as if it were for rent,
And then of friends the most we make,
Another Lease of Love to take.
If you will neither leave, nor love,
As by conjecture I can prove;
You do me wrong to hold me on,
You wrong your self to care for none;
You wrong the face that God you gave,
You wrong the other gifts you have,
And in revenge of this your wrong,
Shall love I hope, and lack as long:
Wherefore or love, or leave me, dear,
Or now, or never, with the Year,