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 28, 2025.

Pages

The Reply.

ASke me no more, whither do stray The golden atomes of the day; For in pure love, heaven did prepare Those powders, to enrich your haire.
Aske me no more whither doth haste The nightingal when summer's past; For in your sweet devided throat She winters, and keepes warme her noate.
Aske me no more where those starres light VVhich downewards stoop in dead of night; For in your eyes they sett; and there Fixed become, as in their spheare.
Aske me no more where Iove bestowes, When Iune is past, the fading rose; For in your beauties Orient deep, All flowers as in their bedds do sleep.

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Aske me no more if East or West, The Phoenix builds her spiced nest; For unto you at last she flyes, And in your fragrant bosome dyes.
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