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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To his Mistris.

I Will not doe sacrifice
To thy face, or to thy eyes
Nor unto thy lilly palme
Nor thy breath that wounding balme:
But the part
To which my heart
In vowes is sealed,
Is that mine
Of blisse divine
Which is concealed.
Whats the golden fruit to me
So I may not shake the tree?
What's that golden architecture
If I may not touch the nectar?
Bare enjoying all the rest
Is but like a golden feast,
Which at need,
Can never feed
Our love sick-wishes
Let me eate,
Substantiall meat,
Not view the dishes.