%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> An Excellent New SONG, call'd, / The Pleasure of LOVE: / OR, / Worldly PLEASURE / Far Exceeds / The MISER's Treasure. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 0 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 01/22/2008 22455

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Patricia Fumerton Early Modern Center - English Department University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93105 United States of America EMail: pfumer@english.ucsb.edu

5.193r R187996 1 a new Play-house Tune A New Playhouse Tune IF a Man was secure / That Life could endure, And thus, thus, thus, thus, / And thus we will lengthen the measure. hinged broadsheet with verso: '<NE>[W]LY PUBLISHED,' [see 5.App.ii:68]. Pepys 5.193r Wing E3822[A] 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: 193r An Excellent New SONG, call'd, / The Pleasure of LOVE: / OR, / Worldly PLEASURE / Far Exceeds / The MISER's Treasure. An Excellent New SONG, call'd, The Pleasure of LOVE: OR, Worldly PLEASURE Far Exceeds The MISER's Treasure. An Excellent New Song, Called, the Pleasure of Love: or, Worldly Pleasure Far Exceeds the Miser's Treasure. 1/2 sheet folio, hinged, 254 x 190 damaged surface, holed, uneven inking, verso shows through horizontal rules 0 LONDON: Printed for J.B: in the Strand. J.B.

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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 1/22/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Love Pleasant 1/22/8 Checker Rachel Mann fixed title 1/17/8 Checker Rachel Mann Updated metadata, created xml 7/13/07 Checker Summer Star Transcription checked, created metadata 7/6 Transcriber Liberty Stanavage Original transcription 11/2/2004 Bibliographer Simone Chess Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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IF a Man was secure That Life could endure, As of old a thousand, as of old a thousand, a thousand good years, What arts might we know, what acts might we do, and all without hurry, and all without hurry and care, But we that have but span long lives The thicker must lay on our pleasure, And since time will not stay, We'll add the night unto the day, And thus, thus, thus, thus, And thus we will lengthen the measure . If Youth could remain Without trouble or pain, And ne'er be perplexed, and ne'er be perplexed, perplexed with sorrow, But Age soon comes on, Youth quickly is gone, we cannot one moment, we cannot one moment's time borrow, And since our Days are very short, Why should we then lose our pleasure, Let us add to our time The joy of love and chearful wine, And thus, thus, thus, thus, And thus we will lengthen the measure .
Let your Misers scruple on, Till their Souls are undone, By hoarding of treasure, by hoarding of treasure of Treasure great store, While Love's our delight By day and by night, we nere can be wretched, we nere can be wretched or poor, Then let us not those Worldlings mind, Who daily heap up daily Treasure But by the Powers of Love, May our youthful flames improve, And thus, thus, thus, thus, And thus we will lengthen the measure . Why should Man then repine At a Mistress or Wine, Which does our dull Fancies, which does our ddll Fancies dull Fancies refine, Though time pass away, Yet while I here stay, let Claret and Women, let Claret and Women be mine, As for those Fools that know them not, They never found out solid Treasure, 'Tis my Bottle and my Miss, That we day and night must kiss, And thus, thus, thus, thus, And thus we will lengthen the measure .
London : Printed for J . B: in the Strand .