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YOung virgins love pleafure,
As mifers do treafure,
And both alike ftudy to heighten the meafiire ;
Their hearts they will rifle,
For ev'ry new trifle ;
And when in their teens fall iri love for a fong.
But {bon as they marry,
And find things milcarry,
Oh ! hdw they figh, that they were not more wary
Inftead of foft wooing,
They run to their ruin,
And all their lives after drag forrdw along.
IF Phillis denies me relief,
If ihe's angry, I'll feek it in wine :
Though fhe laughs at my amorous grief.
At my mirth why mould (he repine ?
Brilk fparkling champaign fhall remove.
All the griefs my dull foul has in ftore
My reafon I loft when I lov'd,
By drinking what can I do more ?
Would Phiilis but pity my pain,
Or my am'rous vows would approve^
The juice of the grape I'd difdain,
And be drunk with nothing but love.
EE, fee, my Seraphina comes !
1 Adorn'd with ev'ry grace,
YOung virgins love pleafure,
As mifers do treafure,
And both alike ftudy to heighten the meafiire ;
Their hearts they will rifle,
For ev'ry new trifle ;
And when in their teens fall iri love for a fong.
But {bon as they marry,
And find things milcarry,
Oh ! hdw they figh, that they were not more wary
Inftead of foft wooing,
They run to their ruin,
And all their lives after drag forrdw along.
IF Phillis denies me relief,
If ihe's angry, I'll feek it in wine :
Though fhe laughs at my amorous grief.
At my mirth why mould (he repine ?
Brilk fparkling champaign fhall remove.
All the griefs my dull foul has in ftore
My reafon I loft when I lov'd,
By drinking what can I do more ?
Would Phiilis but pity my pain,
Or my am'rous vows would approve^
The juice of the grape I'd difdain,
And be drunk with nothing but love.
EE, fee, my Seraphina comes !
1 Adorn'd with ev'ry grace,
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/87758472 |
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| Description | Also: If Phillis denies me relief. Also: See, see, my Seraphina comes! |
| Description | Without music. Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson & J. Reid, MDCCLXII [1762]. Published anonymously but by William Harper. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.181 |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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