London :: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street,
1633.
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"Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69225.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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Loves Alchymie.
SOme that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I,Say, where his centrique happinesse doth lie:I have lov'd, and got, and told,But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,I should not finde that hidden mysterie;Oh, 'tis imposture all:And as no chymique yet th'Elixar got,But glorifies his pregnant pot,If by the way to him befallSome odoriferous thing, or medicinall,So, lovers dreame a rich and long delight,But get a winter-seeming summers night.
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Our ease, our thrift, our honor, and our day,Shall we, for this vaine Bubles shadow pay?Ends love in this, that my man,Can be as happy'as I can; If he canEndure the short scorne of a Bridegroomes play?That loving wretch that sweares,'Tis not the bodies marry, but the mindes,Which he in her Angelique findes,Would sweare as justly, that he heares,In that dayes rude hoarse minstralsey, the spheares.Hope not for minde in women; at their best,Sweetnesse, and wit they'are, but, Mummy, possest▪
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