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That ever man did Read on.
No Shamming, nor Flamming,
No Ramming, nor Damming,
No Ignoramus Jury’s now,
For Whigs, but only Hanging.
No Shamming, nor Flamming,
No Ramming, nor Damming,
No Ignoramus Jury’s now,
For Whigs, but only Hanging.
State and Ambition; A New Song at the Dukes Theatre.
State and Ambition alas will deceive ye,
there’s no ſolid joy but the Bleſſing of Love,
Scorn does of pleaſure fair Silvia bereave ye,
your fame is not perfect till that you remove:
Monarch’s that ſway the vaſt Globe in their glory
now Love is their brighteſt jewel of Power,
Poor Strephon’s heart was ordain’d to adore ye,
ah! then diſdain his Paſſion no more.
there’s no ſolid joy but the Bleſſing of Love,
Scorn does of pleaſure fair Silvia bereave ye,
your fame is not perfect till that you remove:
Monarch’s that ſway the vaſt Globe in their glory
now Love is their brighteſt jewel of Power,
Poor Strephon’s heart was ordain’d to adore ye,
ah! then diſdain his Paſſion no more.
2.
Jove in his Throne was the Victim of Beauty,
his thunder laid by he from Heaven came down
Shap’d like a Swan, to fair Lede paid duty,
and priz’d her far more than his Heavenly Crown
She too was pleas’d with her Beautiful Lover,
the ſtrok’d his fair Plumes and feaſted her Eye,
And he too in loving knew well how to move her,
by Billing begins the buſineſs of Joy.
Jove in his Throne was the Victim of Beauty,
his thunder laid by he from Heaven came down
Shap’d like a Swan, to fair Lede paid duty,
and priz’d her far more than his Heavenly Crown
She too was pleas’d with her Beautiful Lover,
the ſtrok’d his fair Plumes and feaſted her Eye,
And he too in loving knew well how to move her,
by Billing begins the buſineſs of Joy.
3.
Since Divine Powers examples have given,
If we do not follow their precepts we ſin,
Sure ’twill appear an affront to their Heaven,
If when the Gates ope nwe enter not in;
Beauty my deareſt was from the beginning,
ordained to cool Mans amorous rage,
And ſhe that againſt that decree will be ſinning
in Spring, ſhe will find the Winter of Age.
Since Divine Powers examples have given,
If we do not follow their precepts we ſin,
Sure ’twill appear an affront to their Heaven,
If when the Gates ope nwe enter not in;
Beauty my deareſt was from the beginning,
ordained to cool Mans amorous rage,
And ſhe that againſt that decree will be ſinning
in Spring, ſhe will find the Winter of Age.
