...reflection on how we cavaliers can survive the eclipse of the royalist cause: Poore verdant foole! and now green Ice! thy Joys Large and as lasting, as thy Peirch of Grasse, Bid us lay in 'gainst Winter, Raine, and poize Their floods, with an o'reflowing...

...Bacchus bid goodnight; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topped, And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool! and now...thy joys Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter rain, and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. 20 Thou best of...

...Bacchus bid good night; 1 5 Sharp, frosty fingers all your flowers have topped, And what scythes spared, winds shave off quite. Poor verdant fool and now green...joys. Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in 'gainst winter rain, and poise 20 Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. Thou best of...

...conviviality. Lovelace addressed 'The Grasse-hopper' 'to my noble friend, Mr Charles Cotton', and declared: Thou best of Men and Friends! we will create A Genuine...each others breast; And spite of this cold Time and frosen Fate Thaw us a warme seate to our rest. This inner summer recaptured the grasshopper's lost...

...fingers all your Flowr's have topt, And what sithes spar'd, Winds shave off quite. Poore verdant foole! and now green Ice! thy Joys Large and as lasting, as thy Peirch of Grasse, Bid us lay in 'gainst Winter, Raine, and poize Their flouds, with an o'reflowing...

...are cropped ; Ceres and Bacchus bid good night ; Sharp frosty fingers all your flow'rs have topp'd, And what scythes spar'd, winds shave off quite. '...joys, Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay. in 'gainst winter-rains, and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. ' Thou best...