Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.

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Title
Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.
Author
Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
Publication
London :: Printed for R. Pollard, N. Brooks, and T. Dring, and are to be sold at the Old Exchange, and in Fleetstreet,
1658.
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Humorous poetry.
Burlesques.
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"Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52015.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2025.

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The answer, by Dr. Stroad.

REturne my joyes and hither bring A tounge not made to speake, but sing; A joll ye splene, an inward feast, A causelesse laugh without a jest; A face which gladnesse doth annoint, An arme for joy flung out of joynt; A spritefull gate that leaves no print, And make a •…•…eather of a flint: A heart that's lighter then the ayre An eye still dancing in its sphere. Strong which mirth nothing shall controul A body nimbler then a soul: Free wandring thoughts not tied to muse Which thinking all things, nothing chuse; Which ere wee see them come, are gone, These, life it selfe doth feed upon. Then take no care but only to be jolly, To be more wretched then we must, is folly.
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