EBBA 21143
Magdalene College - Pepys
| 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 such Sacred harmony: / Whose charming power, no power has to stay, / Through Earth, through Air, through Sea it finds away. / She sick upon her Bed doth lye, whilst he's at Sea / Steering the Compass, away from her to flee; / But Cupid hits him with his Golden Dart, / And makes him likewise for to feel loves smart. | ||
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| Date Published | 1672-1696 ? | |
| Author | John Dryden | |
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| Imprint | London, Printed for Phillip Brooksby, at the Golden, / Ball in West-Smithfield, neer the Hospital-gate. | |
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| Collection | Magdalene College - Pepys | |
| Page | 3.133 | |
| Location | Pepys Library | |
| Shelfmark | Pepys Ballads 3.133 | |
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| Part 1 | Part 2 | |
| Title | 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 such Sacred harmony: / Whose charming power, no power has to stay, / Through Earth, through Air, through Sea it finds away. / She sick upon her Bed doth lye, whilst he's at Sea / Steering the Compass, away from her to flee; / But Cupid hits him with his Golden Dart, / And makes him likewise for to feel loves smart. | The second part |
| Tune Imprint | To a New Play=house Tune. | to the same Tune. |
| First Lines | CAn Life be a Blessing, / That's worth our possessing? | When we by possessing, / Create a new blessing, |
| Refrain | [first 2 lines of each stanza, repeat first lines above; with variations] | first two lines of each stanza, repeat first lines above; with variations |
| Album Page | 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 197 x 310 | |
| Condition | cropped top edge | |
| Ornament | vertical rule and cast fleurons | |