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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Subject terms
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 May 23, 2025.
Pages
To his Mistris.
COme let's hug and kisse each other,Sacrificing to Love's mother:These are duties which she loves,More then thousand milky DovesFresh bleeding on her altars. WeWill not use our pietyIn such slaughters. CrueltyIs no devotion, nor can IBelieve, that she can pleasure takeIn blood, unlesse for Mars his sake.
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No: Let us to Cythera's Queen,Burn for sacrifice our green,And tender youth, with those divineFlames, which thine eyes begot of mine.And lest the while our zeal catch cold,In warm embraces we'l enfoldEach other, to produce a heat.Thus pleasing her, we pleasure get.Then let's kisse and hugg each other,Sacrificing to Lov's mother.
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