The MORALIST. A Song. Thomas D'Urfey Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. R17889 D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723. New poems, consisting of satyrs, elegies, and odes together with a choice collection of the newest court songs set to musick by the best masters of the age / all written by Mr. D'Urfey. London Printed for J. Bullord ... and A. Roper ... 1690 pp. 141-142. [16],207,[1]p.

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The MORALIST . A Song . I. WHat's the worth of Health or Living , If we stint our selves of Bliss , Grief is but a self-deceiving , Chusing may be for what is ; Doz'd all Night , and daily weeping , Zealots think to Heaven to climb , Thus with Canting and with Sleeping , The poor Sots lose all their Time . II . Give me Love and give me Wine too , For Life's Cares to make amends , Wit and Poetry Divine too , And a charming Female Friend . In a Moral honest Station , To my Grave in Peace I'll go , Let the bug Predestination , Fright the Fools no better know .