Melpomene: or, The muses delight: Being new poems and songs. Written by several of the great wits of our present age, as I.D. T.F. S.W. T.S. C.O. I.B. &c. Collected together, and now printed.

Title

Melpomene: or, The muses delight: Being new poems and songs. Written by several of the great wits of our present age, as I.D. T.F. S.W. T.S. C.O. I.B. &c. Collected together, and now printed.

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London :: printed for H. Rogers at the Bible in Westminster-Hall, against the Court of Common Pleas,

1678.

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English poetry

Songs, English

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"Melpomene: or, The muses delight: Being new poems and songs. Written by several of the great wits of our present age, as I.D. T.F. S.W. T.S. C.O. I.B. &c. Collected together, and now printed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A77795.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• A TABLE OF All the SONGS and POEMS contained in this Book.
• New Poems AND SONGS.
  • To his Dead Mistriss at her Tomb.
  • To the former loving Mourner.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • Against CHASTITY.
  • SONG.
  • The IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT.
  • SONG.
  • The VOYAGE.
  • SONG.
  • Loves Contentment.
  • To A Coy LADY.
  • SONG.
  • The Review. To his worthy Friend Dr. WILL. SANDCROFT, Dean of St. Pauls.
  • THE SCHISMATICK.
  • SONG.
  • News from Newcastle.
  • TO THE DUTCHESS OF CLEAVELAND.
  • To a Foolish Fair One.
  • Fading BEAUTY.
  • To A Full Grown BEAUTY.
  • The ENJOYMENT.
  • A Land-Voyage in Ireland.
  • To A Fair MISTRESS.
  • Against WOMEN.
  • ANSWER In Defence of WOMEN.
  • Foolish NICETY.
  • On The Victory over the Spaniards in the Bay of Sancta Crux, in the Island of Teneriffe.
  • Upon the sight of a Fair Ladies Breech, discovered at her being turned over in a Coach. Translated out of French.
  • Upon the intolerable Heat in the lat∣ter end of May and the begin∣ing of June, 1665.
• Books printed for William Crook.