Amanda, a sacrifice to an unknown goddesse, or, A free-will offering of a loving heart to a sweet-heart by N.H. of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge
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- Title
- Amanda, a sacrifice to an unknown goddesse, or, A free-will offering of a loving heart to a sweet-heart by N.H. of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge
- Author
- Hookes, Nicholas, 1628-1712.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for Humphrey Tuckey ...,
- 1653.
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- Subject terms
- Clifford, Rosamond, d. 1176? -- Poetry.
- Henry -- II, -- King of England, 1133-1189 -- Poetry.
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"Amanda, a sacrifice to an unknown goddesse, or, A free-will offering of a loving heart to a sweet-heart by N.H. of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a44366.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2024.
Pages
Page 155
Watch-lights and tapers to nights Deities;
Is there 'tween Lethe and Pyrene's streams,
No diff'rence? are Enthusiasmes dreames?
Shall Phoebus sonnes i'th' bed drive light away,
And with Apollo's curtain blinde the day?
Here lies a bedrid-Poet, I'd rather have
A dormitorie without Epitaph,
Then on my monument it should be sed,
Euterpe's smother'd in a feather-bed:
Me for no hydromantick novice take,
Who cast my water for experience sake,
I'm no young Paeon, that thus at my hand
My Urine alwayes should so closely stand;
At twelve o'th' clock it truly may be sed,
To me you're come but newly from your bed.
Somnus the Muses Closet must not be,
A cabbin for thine Incubus and thee.
Yet I love sleep, good Morpheus do not frown,
I only wish my feather-bed were down.