Loves power and greatness, or, The charming lovers praise. Loves mighty accents founded natures frame, all that have being from loves fountain came; that universal gold, eternal joy, which yields the world such sacred harmony, whose charming power, no power has to stay, through Earth, through air, through sea it finds away. To a new play-house tune. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43378 of text W3270 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B43378 489264896 ocn 489264896 Wing L3282

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Loves power and greatness, or, The charming lovers praise. :Loves mighty accents founded natures frame, all that have being from loves fountain came; Hilliard, Timothy, 1747-1790. 1680 3 740 3 0 0 0 0 0 40.54 D The rate of 40.54 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Loves Power and Greatness , Or , The Charming Lovers Praise . Loves Mighty Accents founded Natures frame , All that have being from Loves Fountain came ; That Universal good , Eternal joy , Which yields the world fuch Sacred harmony : Whose charming power , no power has to stay , Through Earth , through Air , through Sea it finds away . To a New Play-house Tune . She sick upon her Bed doth lye , whilst he 's at Sea Steering the Compass , away from her to flee ; But Cupid hits him with his Golden Dart , And ma●es him likewise for to feel loves smart .

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CAn Life be a Blessing , That 's worth our possessing ? Can life be a blessing if Love were away ? Ah no though our Love all night keeps us waking , and though he torment us with cares all the day ; Yet he sweetens , he sweetens , our pains in the taking theres an hour at the last , an hour to repay . In every possessing , So Heavenly a blessing , in every possessing the fruit of our pain ; Poor Lovers forget long ages of anguish , what e're they have s●●●●'d and done to obtain ; 't is a pleasure , a pleasure , to sigh , and to languish , when we hope , when we hope , to be happy again . For Love is a blessing , That 's worth our possessing ? great Love is that blessing for which we contend ; Incircled to pleasures , to charms that are lasting , how happy are Lovers that mutally bend : O to manage , to manage , their loves without wasting those Heavenly , Heavenly moments to spend . Is honour a blessing that 's worth the possessing ? is Honour a blessing if Love be deny'd ? Ah no but m●st glorious where love is adorning ; honour shines brightest when love is apply'd It splendo s , it splendors , like the rays of the morning , all darting , all darting , from every side .
The second part to the same Tune . When we by possessing , Create a new blessing , when we by possessing are Charm'd with delight ; The ravishing pleasure of Beauties surprizing , to chase the dark shaddows of care all the night : And to sallace , to sallace , till Phoebus up-rising , does chear us , does chear us with the dazling light Ambitions no blessing , Nor pomp worth possessing , ambition 's no blessing but fruitless and vain ; Like a Ship on the Ocean the Billows dividing , till wrackt by a Tempest , and sunk in the Main : But Beauty , bright beauty , Loves eternal abiding no dangers , no dangers , can ever restrain . Oh Loves the chief blessing , And worthy possessing , O love's the chief blessing , by love the great frame Of Nature was setled , the Vniverse founded , and all that have being from Loves bounties came In Paradise , Paradise , sweet Love it abounded , and from our first Parents descended by fame , To Love is a blessing , That 's worth the professing . to Love is a blessing , where beauties are kind Fame , honour , & greatness , with all their dependants as when Love , as when love , possesses the mind . Those Charms in possessing , Renew the great blessing , those Charms in possessing , continually breaths Fresh fancies of pleasure , for Love is still blooming and glorious delight to our Bosoms bequeaths : whilst we drink up , whilst we drink up nectar consuming the moments , the moments , like Laurel we wreath Then Loves the great blessing , That 's worthy possessing , then Loves the great blessing the glorious Love , Transcendant enjoyments most happy assigning whole ages of pleasure delightful must prove , The reward , the reward , of our toyl without pining then let us , then let us , for ever thus move : then let us , then let us , for ever thus love .
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London , Printed for Phillip Brooksby , at the Golden , Ball in West-smithfield , neer the Hospital-gate .