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Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco. - probably, in a manuscript of the 17th century owned by J. Payne Collier, printed in "My Little Book of Songs and Ballads from Ancient Music Books" [Tobacco] Hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, And therefore let's be again. - Christmas [Sorrow] And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws. - Contented Man's Morrice [Law] I loved a lass, a fair one, As fair as e'er was seen; She was indeed a rare one, Another Sheba queen: But, fool as then I was, I thought she loved me too: But now, alas! she's left me, Falero, lero, loo! - I Loved a Lass [Inconstancy] Night begins to muffle up the day. - Mistresse of Philarete [Night] Shall I, wasting in despaire, Dye because a woman's faire? Or make pale my cheeks with care Cause another's rosie are? Be shee fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May; If she be not so to me, What care I how faire shee be? - Mistresse of Philarete [Women] Jack shall pipe, and Jill shall dance. - Poem on Christmas [Dancing] When with a serious musing I behold The graceful and obsequious marigold, How duly every morning she displays Her open breast, when Titan spreads his rays. - The Marigold [Marigolds] Little said is soonest mended. - The Shepherd's Hunting [Talk] Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit. - The Shepherd's Hunting [Wit]
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