The LUNATICK Lover;
OR,
The Young-Man's Call to Grim King of the Ghosts for Cure.
To an Excellent New Tune.
This may be Printed, R.P.
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GRim King of the Ghosts make haste,
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and bring hither all your Train;
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See how the pale Moon does waste,
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and just now is in the Wain:
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Come you Night-Haggs with all your Charms,
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and Reveling Witches away,
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And hugg me close in your Arms,
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to you my Respects I'll pay,
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I'll Court you and think you Fair,
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since Love does distract my Brain;
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I'll go and I'll Wed the Night-Mare,
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and Kiss her and kiss her again:
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But if she proves peevish and proud,
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then a pies of her Love let her go;
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I'll seek me a Winding-Shroud,
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and down to the Shades below.
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A Lunacy I endure,
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since Reason departs away;
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I call to those Haggs for Cure,
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as knowing not what I say:
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The Beauty whom I do adore,
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now slights me with scorn and disdain
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I never shall see her more,
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ah! how shall I bear my pain.
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I Ramble and range about,
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to find out my Charming Saint:
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While she at my Grief does flout,
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and smiles at my loud complaint:
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Distraction I see is my Doom,
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of this I am now too sure;
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A Rival is in my room
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while Torments I do endure.
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Strange Fancies doth fill my Head,
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while wandering in Dispair;
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I am to the Desarts led,
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expecting to find her there:
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Methinks in a Spangl'd Cloud,
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I see her Enthron'd on high;
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Then to her I cry aloud
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and labour to reach the Sky.
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When thus I have rav'd a while,
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and weary'd my self in vain,
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I lye on the Barren Soyl,
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and bitterly do Complain:
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Till Slumber hath quieted me,
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in sorrow I sigh and weep;
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The Clouds is my Canopy,
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to cover me while I sleep.
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I Dream that my Charming fair,
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is then in my Rivals Bed,
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Whose Tresses of Golden Hair,
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is on the fair Pillows spread:
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Then this doth my Passion inflame,
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I start and no longer can lye;
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Ah! Sylvia, art thou not to blame ,
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to ruin a Lover, I cry.
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Grim King of the Ghosts be true,
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and hurry me hence away;
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My languishing Life to you,
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as Tribute I freely pay:
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To the [Eli]zium Shades I past,
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in hopes to be free from Care;
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Where many a bleeding Chest,
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is hovering in the A[i]r.
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FINIS.
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