Remedium melancholiae, or, The remedy of melancholy. the first book being a choice collection of new songs : with a thorow-bass for the harpsichord, theorbo, or bass-viol. / composed by Johann Wolfgang Franck.

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Title: Remedium melancholiae, or, The remedy of melancholy. the first book being a choice collection of new songs : with a thorow-bass for the harpsichord, theorbo, or bass-viol. / composed by Johann Wolfgang Franck.
Author: Franck, Johann Wolfgang, ca. 1644-ca. 1710.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. Heptinstall and are to be sold by the author, living at Mr. Bond's, a barber in Lothbury,; 1690.
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〈♫〉〈♫〉TUsh never tell me I'm too young for lo╌ving, or too green, She stays at least Ten Years too long that's Wedded at Four╌teen, Lambs bring forth Lambs, & Doves bring Doves as soon as they'r be╌got╌ten, then why shou'd La╌dies lin╌ger Loves, as if not ripe till rotten.

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Gray Hairs are fitter for the Grave,Then for the Bridal Bed;What pleasure can a Lover haveIn a wither'd Maidenhead?Nature's exalted in our time,And what our Grandams thenAt four and twenty scarce cou'd climbWe can arrive at Ten.