%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Love's Mighty Conquest: or / Beauty's Debate for Love and Liberty. / A Pleasant New PLAY-SONG. / Contending Beauty with much Ardor Strove, / Which was superiour Liberty and Love; / A Chast reservedness with melting Charms, / That Lovers find in one anothers Arms: / Till mighty Love the Conquest gains at last, / And his great Power by Liberty's surpast. D'Urfey, Thomas University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1686 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/25/2008 22036

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5.201 R188503 1 a New Play-House Tune Liberty's the soul of living A New Playhouse Tune LIberty's the Soul of Living, / Every Hours new Joys receiving, author noted by Simpson as the author from whose song this ballad is expanded; date from Simpson Pepys 5.201 Wing L3271[B] Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 5: 201 Love's Mighty Conquest: or / Beauty's Debate for Love and Liberty. / A Pleasant New PLAY-SONG. / Contending Beauty with much Ardor Strove, / Which was superiour Liberty and Love; / A Chast reservedness with melting Charms, / That Lovers find in one anothers Arms: / Till mighty Love the Conquest gains at last, / And his great Power by Liberty's surpast. Love's Mighty Conquest: or Beauty's Debate for Love and Liberty. A Pleasant New PLAY-SONG. Contending Beauty with much Ardor strove, Which was superiour Liberty and Love; A Chast reservedness with melting Charms, That Lovers find in one anothers Arms: Till mighty Love the Conquest gains at last, And his great Power by Liberty's surpast. Love's Mighty Conquest: or Beauty's Debate for Love and Liberty. A Pleasant New Play Song. Contending Beauty with Much Ardor Strove, Which was Superior Liberty and Love; A Chast Reservedness with Melting Charms, That Lovers Find in One Another's Arms: Til Mighty Love the Conquest Gains at Last, And His Great Power by Liberty's Surpast. D'Urfey, Thomas 1/2 sheet folio, 268 x 140 horizontal and vertical rules 1686 LONDON, Printed for Richard Butler in Rothwell in York-shire, and White-Lyon- / Court in Barbican. Richard Butler Simpson

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 8/25/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant appearance love mythology/Classicalworld virtue 08/25/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/16/2007 Checker Summer J. Star Ballad Checked 07/2006 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Original Transcription 9/21/2004 Bibliographer Margaret K. Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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LIBERTY. LIberty's the Soul of Living, Every Hours new Joys receiving, No sharp Pangs our Hearts are grieving, Liberty's the Soul of Living. Here are no false Men pursuing, Youth and Beauty to its Ruin; Morning Sighs like Turtles Looing, Nor the bitter Sighs of Woeing. LOVE. In soft Dreams our Souls are wasted, All our sollid Joys are blasted, Sweet Diana, e're I'm past it, Change your Laws and let me tast it; But how vain are hopes or sorrows, Pensive Nights and sighing morrows, Loves a thing not designed for us, All our Quivers want their Arrows. LIBERTY. Freedom gives us all our Pleasure, Without that there is no Treasure, For by that our Joys we Measure, Count our happy days at Leisure, Sweet Diana do not fly me, Lustful Venus, come not nigh me, Liberty alone can please me, Love, fond Love will but Disease me. LOVE. Love alone it is Contents me, Golden showers I'le scatter plenty, Joys that Chast desire ne're sent me, Tho' it does sometimes torment me, Without Love, what Creature living, Is there but must needs be grieving; Nature made us in that Fashion, Who would then forgoe her Passion.
LIBERTY. Single Liberty is better, Then to wear blind Cupid's Fetter; Than enslave us to a Creature, That unconstant is by Nature; How our Freedom would we value, Were we Chain'd unto a Gally; Love has Chains, that full as strong are, And will last us, last us longer. LOVE, Without the softer Charms of Loving, Liberty is nothing moving, Which those Birds that still are Roving Through the gentle Air are Proving Tho' their ways with Winds they're taking Yet their Loves they're not forsaking, In their Freedom they are Billing, And to Love are ever Willing. LIBERTY. Softer Flames we own do move us, Like the gentle fire they prove us; But they never, never love us, Never, never get above us. Liberty's alone Superior, Cupid cannot come no nearer, But to make us dart some glances, Has no Power to try our Fancies. LOVE. Mighty Love is more in Fashion, And does move the whole Creation, Nothing but a generous Passion, Keeps true joy within its Station, Without it, Pleasures are decaying, Then confess without delaying, That true Lov's the greater Blessing, That on Earth is worth possessing.
With Allowance. LONDON, Printed for Richard Butler in Rothwell in York-shire, and White-Lyon Court in Barbican.