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 lie, 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.   
 woodcut of gentleman and lady outdoors  woodcut of compass rose  


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;  
'tis 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;  
encircled 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 denied?  
Ah no but m●st glorious where love is adorning;  
honour shines brightest when love is applied  
It splendo s, it splendours, 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 charmed with delight;  
The ravishing pleasure of Beauties surprising,  
to chase the dark shadows of care all the night:  
And to sallace, to sallace, till Phoebus up-rising,  
does cheer us, does cheer us with the dazzling 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 wracked 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 settled, the universe founded,  
and all that have being from Loves bounties came  
In Paradise, Paradise, sweet Love it abounded,  
and from our first Parents descended by famed,   

To Love is a blessing,  
That's worth the professing.  
to Love is a blessing, where beauties are kind  
famed, honour,& greatness, with all their dependents  
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 bequeathes:  
whilst we drink up, whilst we drink up nectar consuming  
the moments, the moments, like Laurel we wreathe   

Then Loves the great blessing,  
That's worthy possessing,  
then Loves the great blessing the glorious Love,  
transcendent enjoyments most happy assigning  
whole ages of pleasure delightful must prove,  
The reward, the reward, of our toil without pining  
then let us, then let us, for ever thus move:  
then let us, then let us, for ever thus love.    
FINIS.   

London, Printed for Phillip Brooksby, at the Golden, Ball in West-smithfield, near the Hospital-gate.