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5.404 R234532 1 State and Ambition State and Ambition State and Ambition STate and Ambition alas will deceieve ye, / there's no solid joy but the blessing of love, author name from Wing, and noted by Simpson as the author from whose song this ballad is expanded; date from Simpson Pepys 5.404 Wing D2786A 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: 404 STATE and AMBITION / A New SONG / AT THE / DUKES THEATRE. STATE and AMBITION A New SONG AT THE DUKES THEATRE. State and Ambition a New Song at the Duke's Theater. D'Urfey, Thomas 1/2 sheet folio, 236 x 174 cropped left edge vertical rule 1683 Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden ball in/ Pye=Corner P. Brooksby Weinstein: Simpson

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I. STate and Ambition alas will deceive ye, there's no solid joy but the blessing of love, Scorn does of pleasure fair Silvia bereave ye, your fame is not perfect till that you remove, Monarchs that sway the vast Globe in their glory, now love is their brightest jewel of power, Poor Strephons heart was ordain'd to adore ye ah! then disdain his passion no more. II. Jove in his Throne was the victim of Beauty, his thunder laid by he from Heaven came down, Shap'd like a Swan to fair Leda paid duty, and priz'd her far more then his heavenly crown She too was pleas'd with her beautiful lover, she stroak'd his fair plumes and she feasted her eyes And he too in loving knew well how to move her by billing begins the business of joys. III. Since Divine powers examples hath given, if we do not follow their precepts we sin, Sure 'twill appear an affront to the Heaven, if when the Gates open we enter not in: Beauty my dearest was from the beginning, ordained to cool mans amorous rage, And she that against this decree will be sinning. in Spring she will find the Winter of age.
IV. Think on the pleasure while loves in it's glory, let not your scorn loves great Alter disgrace, T he time it will come when no Swain will adore ye, or smooth the least wrincle age lays on your face: Then hast to enjoyment while love is fresh blooming and I in my height and vigor of day, Each minute we loose, our pleasures consuming, and seven years to come will not one past repay. V. Think my dear Silvia the Heavenly blessing, of loving in youth is the crown of our days, Short are the hours where love is possessing, but tedious the minutes when crost with delays: L ove's the soft Anvil where Natures agreeing, all mankind are form'd and by it they move, 'Tis thence my dear Silvia and I have our being, the Cesar and Swain spring from almighty love. VI. I see my near Silvia at last has consented, that blush in your Cheeks does plainly appear, And nought but delays shall be ever repented, so faithful i'le prove, and so true to my dear, Then Hymen prepare and light all thy Torches, perfume thy head Alter and strew all the way, By little degrees love makes his approaches, but revels at night for the loss of the day.
Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden Ball in Pye-Corner.