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To Chloris: A SONG.
1 IF my Addresses are grateful,
2 Shew it in granting my Suit,
3 Or if my Passion be hateful,
4 Leave me and end the dispute:
5 I hate your doubling and turning,
6 Like a cours'd Hare in a Morning,
7 Either comply as you should,
8 Or leave me to others that would.
Source edition
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, p. 162. [16],207,[1]p. (ESTC R17889) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Harding C 1197 (1)].)
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Other works by Thomas D'Urfey
- Against Free-Will. A SONG. ()
- Another EPILOGUE Intended for the same. ()
- The Author answers his Friend, who blames him for not singing, when desired, he contradict the Third Satyr of Horace, beginning with Omnibus hoc vitium est Cantoribus inter Amicos, &c. He defends Tigellius, and proves that Horace had no actual Skill in Vocal Musick. ()
- A Catch in Three Parts, set by Mr. Hen. Purcel, and taken from the Latin of BUCHANAN. ()
- A CATCH set by Docter BLOW. ()
- A Dialogue between a Town Spark and his Miss. ()
- A Dialogue between PHILANDER and SILVIA, set to an excellent new Scotch Tune. ()
- The DREAM: Or, CELADON's Complaint of MORPHEUS to the Assembly of the GODS. ()
- An ELEGY On the Death of that true Perfection of Beauty and Goodness, the Lady ESSEX SPICKET, who dyed of the Small-Pox, immediately after her Marriage. ()
- An ELEGY on the Death of the Great Duke of ORMOND. ()
- An ELEGY On the late Holy Father Pope INNOCENT the Eleventh. ()
- EPIGRAM On the Sacred Memory of that glorious Patron of POETS, greatest and best of Monarchs, KING CHARLES the Second. ()
- An Epilogue intended for a late COMEDY, and to be spoke by Mr. MONFORD, in a long Presbyterian Cloak. ()
- Epilogue to the Opera of DIDO and AENEAS, ()
- An EPITHALAMIUM on the Marriage of the Lord MORPETH with the Lady ANN CAPELL. ()
- Epithalamy on the Marriage of the Right Honourable the Lady Essex Roberts. ()
- EPSOM-WELLS: A Satyr by way of Dialogue, between Critick and Fame. ()
- The Farmers Daughter, a SONG, set to a Pleasant Scotch Tune. ()
- The HEALTH. A Second Movement. ()
- The KING'S Health: A CATCH Sung in Parts. ()
- A LASH AT ATHEISTS: The POET speaking, as the Ghost of a Quondam Libertine, suppos'd to be the late E. of R. Reflects on that part of Seneca's Troas, beginning atPost Mortem nihil est, Ipsaq; Mors nihilVelocis spatii meta Novissima:Spem ponant avidi seliciti metum.Quaeris quo Iaceas post Obitum locoQuo non Nata Iacent. ()
- The Law of Nature; A SONG set to an Excellent new Tune. ()
- A Letter written by the Author for a Friend, to one in Town; being a SATYR, on DINGBOY and a Rampant WIDOW. 1685. ()
- A Letter Written for a LADY in Answer to a Friend. ()
- Loves Revenge. A SONG. ()
- A Mock SONG to, When first AMINTOR su'd for a Kiss, &c. ()
- The MORALIST. A Song. ()
- Mr. HAINES's Second Recantation: A PROLOGUE intended to be spoken by him dress'd in a Turkish habit. ()
- A NEW ESSAY In Defence of VERSE, With a SATYR Upon the Enemies of POETRY. ()
- An ODE TO THE QUEEN. ()
- An ODE, From the Greek of ANACREON. ()
- An ODE. To my much honored Friend Sir THOMAS GARRARD, Baronet, upon his Climacterical YEAR. ()
- The Old Fumbler. A SONG: Set by Mr. Hen. Purcell. ()
- Paid for Peeping: A POEM, Occasion'd by a Peeping hole into a Chamber where a Beautiful and Virtuous young Lady Lodg'd, through which undiscover'd, I could observe all her Actions. ()
- A PARALLEL. ()
- A POEM Panegyrical On His GRACE THE D. of ALBEMARLE; With Remarks on His Voyage for JAMAICA, and the late Treasure brought Home in the JAMES and MARY. ()
- Prologue spoken by Mr. HAINS to TRAPOLIN, or a Duke and no Duke. ()
- A PROLOGUE, By way of SATYR, spoke before King CHARLES II. at New-Market. ()
- The Scotch VIRAGO. A SONG Sung to the Queen at Kensington. ()
- A Second Burlesque LETTER written for a Friend, suppos'd to be a CUCKOLD'S GHOST, coming from Hell, and answering a Satyr of STUM CLARET his Brother Vintner; With a Conjugal Reprimand to SALACIA his late Mournful WIDOW. ()
- A SONG set to a pleasant Scotch Tune. ()
- SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- SONG. II. To a young LADY Affronted by an Envious old Woman. ()
- TO A LADY, Twitting him with his being Peevish, and having Ill Humours. ()
- TO CHLORIS: A SONG. ()
- To CLORIS: An ODE set to the New RIGGADON. ()
- To CYNTHIA. ()
- To CYNTHIA. ()
- To Cynthia. A SONG. ()
- To pretty Mrs. H. D. upon the sight of her Picture standing amongst other at Mr. Knellers. ()
- To the KING: An ODE on his Birth Day. ()
- To the Right Honorable the Lady Olympia R. on her Genius in POETRY. ()
- TO THE Right HONOURABLE THE LADY E. R. Vpon her finding a Spider in her BED. ()
- TO THE Right HONOURABLE THE. Earl of RADNOR ON HIS MARRIAGE. ()
- A TRUE TALE OF A True INTRIGUE. ()