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(199) Page 179 - If you'd court the joy won't leave you
ot s o n g s^ tdy
@r fooli&ly difturb the fldes
With vain complaints or fruitless cries |;
For if the fatal deftinies
Jiave all decreed it mould be ib,
What good will gold or crying do ?
Crive me, to eafe my thirty foul,
The joys and comforts ,of the bowl 5
Freedom and health, and whiift i live-,
Xet me not want what love can give,
Then mall I die in peace, and have
This confolation in the grave,
That once I had the world my Have,
IF you'd court the joy won't leave you 3
Pay your vows at Bacchus' mrines
<J)ther pleafures will deceive you,
Truth is only found in wine,
|f you'd court, <bc t
Jjet the puny, {heaking lover
Bow to Cupid like a fool %
Juft experience will dilcover,
He's no more than woman's tooL
He's no more, &c.
Bring more wine then, charge the glalles^
Let 'em flow with gen'rous red ;
jprown a thoufand loving afles,
Then in triumph march to bed*
Bring more, 6c.
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