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 13, 2025.

Pages

The Moderatix.

ILe tell you where another sun That setts, as riseing it begun. It is my selfe who keepes one spheare And were the same if men so were.
What need I tell, that life and death, May passe in sentence from one breath; So issue from my equall heart Both love and scorn for mens desert.
Ile tell you in what heavenly hell An Angell and a friend may dwell: It is myne eye whose glassy book Sends back the gazers divers look.
Ile tell you in a divers scale One weight can up and downewards hale: You call me thistle, you a rose; I neither am, yet both of those.
Ile tell you where both frost and fire In peace of common feat conspire;

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My frozen brest that flint is like, Yet yeilds a fire if you will strike.
Then you that love, and you that loath. With one aspect I answer both; For round about me glowes a fire, Can melt and harden grosse desire.
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