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After long service and a thousand vows (Bristol Drollery) 19
As Chloe o'er the meadow past (Sir Charles Sedley) 122
As I traversed to and fro (Academy of Compliments) 36
As youthful day put on his best (Westminster Drollery) 63
Away, away! call back what you have said (Corkine) 88
Be thou joyful, I am jolly (Windsor Drollery) 87
Beauty, since you so much desire (Campion) 6
Black eyes, in your dark orbs doth lie (Howell) 32
Chloris, forbear awhile (Sportive Wit) 93
Chloris, when I to thee present (Westminster Drollery) 41
Chloris saw me sigh and tremble (Vinculum Societatis) 7
Come, be my Valentine (Bishop Andrewes) 121
Come, my Clarinda, we'll consume (Paulin) 127
Come, Phillis, let's to yonder grove (Bristol Drollery) 7
Constant wives are comforts to men's lives (Add. MS. 22601) 3
Cupid is an idle toy (Folly in Print) 4
Cupid, thou art a sluggish boy (Mysteries of Love and Eloquence) 42
Dear Castadorus, let me rise (Jordan) 53
Dear, I must do (Folly in Print) 25
Do not ask me, charming Phillis (New Academy of Compliments) 43
Do not rack my bleeding heart (Ramsay) 118
Down in a garden sat my dearest love (Wit's Interpreter) 9
Dunces in love, how long shall we (Rawlinson MS., Poet. 117) 10
Fair Chloris in a gentle slumber lay (Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery) 94
Fairest, if you roses seek (Bristol Drollery) 72
Fairest thing that shines below (New Academy of Compliments) 109
Gaze not on thy beauty's pride (Carew) 84
Go and count her better hours (Rawlinson MS. Poet. 206) 67
Go, fickle man, and teach the moon to range (Hammond) 124
Hark, my Flora! Love doth call us (Cartwright) 10
He or she that hopes to gain (Harl. MS. 6918) 120
He that hath no mistress must not wear a favour (Corkine) 44
He that intends to woo a maid (Academy of Compliments) 14
Her dainty palm I gently prest (Marrow of Compliments) 45
I dream'd we both were in a bed (Herrick) 40
I have followed thee a year at least (New Academy of Compliments) 107
I pray thee, sweet John, away (Greaves) 46
I swear by muscadel (Duke of Newcastle) 47
I walk'd abroad not long ago (Wither) 101
I will not do a sacrifice (Wit Restored) 67
If any hath the heart to kill (Campion) 99
If my lady bid begin (Academy of Compliments) 1
If shadows be the picture's excellence (Rawlinson MS. Poet. 199) 30
In summer time when birds do sing (Harl. MS. 7322) 79
In summer time when grass was mown (Harl. MS. 791) 82
Know, falsest man, as my love was (Hammond) 125
Know, Sylvia, that your curious twist (Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery) 106
Ladies, whose marble hearts despise (Munsey) 78
Ladies, you that seem so nice (Henry Lawes' Airs and Dialogues) 98
Lady, on your eyes I gazed (Wit's Recreations) 115
Let common beauties have the power (Harl. MS. 6917) 2
Like to the wealthy island thou shalt lie (New Academy of Compliments) 13
Lose no time nor youth, but be (Mysteries of Love and Eloquence) 73
Love in rambling once astray (Wit at a Venture) 68
Maids they are grown so coy of late (Marrow of Compliments) 97
Methought the other night (Jones) 34
My days, my months, my years (Attey) 15
My love hath vowed he will forsake me (Campion) 95
My love in her attire doth show her wit (Davison's Poetical Rhapsody) 12
My mistress sings no other song (Jones) 16
Naked love did to thine eye (Sherburne) 114
Nature, that wash'd her hands in milk (Sir Walter Rawleigh) 76
Nay pish! nay phew! nay faith and will you? fie! (Sportive Wit) 49
Nay, Silvia, now you're cruel grown (Rawlinson MS. Poet. 94) 21
No, Sylvia, 'tis not your disdain (Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery) 39
O how oftentimes have I (Harl. MS. 7332) 111
Once I must confess I loved (Wit Restored) 83
Once and no more: so said my life (Wit's Interpreter) 29
Phillis, for shame, let us improve (Westminster Drollery) 105
Pish, modest sipper, to't again (New Academy of Compliments) 69
Poor Celia once was very fair (Flatman) 90
Pretty nymph, why always blushing (Wit's Cabinet) 110
Shall we die (Westminster Drollery) 74
Sighs, blow out those flames in me (Rawlinson MS. Poet. 199) 119
Silvia, now your scorn give over (Vinculum Societatis) 96
Sleepy, my dear? Yes, yes, I see (Wit's Interpreter) 17
Sol shines not th[o]rough all the year so bright (Bristol Drollery) 18
Some men desire spouses (Weelkes) 104
Still to affect, still to admire (Harl. MS. 6917) 3
Sweet, exclude me not, nor be divided (Campion) 52
Sweet Jane, sweet Jane, I love thee wondrous well (New Academy of Compliments) 48
Sweet Philomel, in groves and desarts haunting (Jones) 62
Take Time, my dear, ere Time takes wing (Melpomene) 102
There is not half so warm a fire (Choice Drollery) 71
Thine's fair, facetious, all that can (Wit's Interpreter) 28
Though that no god may thee deserve (Marrow of Compliments) 60
'Tis not, dear Love, that amber twist (Wit Restored) 113
'Tis not how witty nor how free (Wit's Interpreter) 61
'Tis true your beauty, which before (Wit's Recreations) 86
To bed ye two in one united go (Baron) 117
To her whose beauty doth excel (Wits Interpreter) 75
Two lovers sat lamenting (Corkine) 91
Under the willow-shades they were (Davenant) 89
Underneath this myrtle shade (Windsor Drollery) 26
What though Flora frowns on me (Tixall Poetry) 108
When doth Love set forth desire? (Academy of Compliments) 100
When first Amyntas sued for a kiss (D'Urfey) 103
When I do love I wish to taste the fruit (Harl. MS. 6917) 5
When Phœbus first did Daphne love (John Dowland) 55
Why is your faithful slave disdain'd (Banquet of Music) 59
Why, Nanny, quoth he. Why, Janny, quoth she. (Oxford Drollery) 23
Why should passion lead thee blind (Harl. MS. 791) 56
Would you be a man of fashion (Tixall Poetry) 116
Would you know earth's highest pleasure (Tixall Poetry) 116
Yes, I could love if I could find (Malone MS. 16) 57
You nimble dreams with cobweb wings (Sloane MS. 1792) 51
You that in the midst of night (Ashmole MS. 38) 58
Your smiles are not as other women's be (Townsend) 126