Poem by Matthew Prior

Songs Set to Music: 1. Set by Mr. Abel

Reading ends in melancholy,
Wine breeds vices and diseases,
Wealth is but care, and love but folly,
Only friendship truly pleases.
My wealth, my books, my flask, my Molly,
Farewell all if friendship ceases. 

1. To the Author of the Foregoing Pastoral - (Love and Friendship)
2. Written in an Ovid
3. Cupid Mistaken
4. A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When a Child
5. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer

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