%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> LOVE'S TRIUMPH: / OR, THE / Batchelors Warning-Piece. / With the CHARACTER of a FALSE LOVER. / Love our only Joy and Grace, / Love from Heaven derives his race: / None but Heavenly Souls can prove / Fit receptions of true Love. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/12/2021 37636

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R180187 ANgels Happiness doth move / In the eternal Sphere of Love: How came Woman to deprive / Love of his Prerogative? British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 101 LOVE'S TRIUMPH: / OR, THE / Batchelors Warning-Piece. / With the CHARACTER of a FALSE LOVER. / Love our only Joy and Grace, / Love from Heaven derives his race: / None but Heavenly Souls can prove / Fit receptions of true Love. LOVE'S TRIUMPH: OR, THE Bachelor's Warning Piece. With the CHARACTER of a FALSE LOVER. Love our only Joy and Grace, Love from Heaven derives his race: None but Heavenly Souls can prove Fit receptions of true Love. ?-? D.M.

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1. ANgels Happiness doth move In the eternal Sphere of Love: When their Maker they would praise, Love can do't a thousand ways: Love begins the Hymns, and Love Ends the Harmony above. 2. Love doth more than this; for he Moves th'All-ruling Deity, He to th' Chaos form did bring, He gave Life to everything; All was made and all doth move By the Influence of Love. 3. Sometimes Love is pleas'd to shew His Empires large extent below; Then he shoots immortal Darts Into well-prepared hearts. From the bright and blessed Skies Down to silly Worms he flies. 4. He descends, but with milde force Doth our Hearts from Earth divorce; Straight we burn with holy Fire, Love doth mount our pinions higher, Love on Contemplation flies, On Love's Wings ourselves do rise.
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5. How came Woman to deprive Love of his Prerogative? Woman, but a beauteous snare, Woman so destructive fair, Woman, whose bright Eyes impart Heaven, though Hell be in her Heart.
6. How came Woman thus to reign? She doth cozen, she doth feign, She both flatters and betrays; First she sings, and then she slays: Yet she doth the Crown obtain; How came Woman thus to reign? 7. Mortals, you mistake your aim, Burning in forbidden flame; They may be with caution us'd, When they rule you, you're abus'd: You your Bodies may bestow, But to Heaven your Hearts you owe. 8. Then joyn your Hands and something more, So you forbear but to adore. With her you may your person joyn; But never offer at her Shrine: Upon kind Heaven your Soul confer, Sure 'tis more fit for him than her. 9. If they had a faithful Heart, You might yours to them impart; Then at least (though 'twere not just) You would have some place of trust: But their Hearts inconstant now; And though yours break, they will not bow. 10. If they please, they can express Much of Love and Gentleness; But their Tongues, like Ships, do sail Strongly mov'd with Fancies gale, Though they plow the Ocean deep, No track of them the Waves can keep. Why should this fair Idol be Rival to the Deity? Break her Altars, burn her face, And retrive your hearts again. ------ Varium & mutabile semper Faemina ------ Virgil.
FINIS. With Permission, Ro. L'Estrange. London: Printed for D.M. 1676.