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. A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, When a Child
2. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
3. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
4. Partial Fame
5. Upon This Passage In Scaligeriana

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