Sportive vvit the muses merriment, a new spring of lusty drollery, joviall fancies, and a la mode lamponnes, on some heroic persons of these late times, never before exposed to the publick view / collected for the publick good by a club of sparkling wits, viz. C.J., B.J., L.M., W.T., cum multis alsis----

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Title: Sportive vvit the muses merriment, a new spring of lusty drollery, joviall fancies, and a la mode lamponnes, on some heroic persons of these late times, never before exposed to the publick view / collected for the publick good by a club of sparkling wits, viz. C.J., B.J., L.M., W.T., cum multis alsis----
Publication: London :: Printed for Nath. Brook ...,; 1656.
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A SONG.
When Phoebus first did Daphne love,
And could no way her fancy move;
He crav'd the cause. The cause, quoth she,
Is, I have vow'd Virginity.
Then Phoebus raging, swore, and said,
'Bove fifteen none should die a maid.
If maidens then perchance are sped▪
Ere they can scarcely dress their head;
Yet pardon them, for they are loath
To make Apollo break his oath:
And better 'tis a childe were born,
Than that a god should be forsworn.
Yet silly they, when all is done,
Complain, our wits their hearts have won;
When 'tis for fear that they should be
With Daphne turn'd into a tree:
And who would so her self abuse,
To be a tree, if she could ch••se?