<p>Foole! Dost thou hope, thine Honours, or thy Gold,<lb/> Shall gaine thee Love? Or, that thou hast her heart<lb/> Whose hand upon thy tempting Bayt layes hold?<lb/> Alas! fond Lover, thou deceived art.<lb/> She that with Wealth, and Titles, can be wonne,<lb/> Or woo'd with Vanities, will wav'ring bee;<lb/> And, when her Love, thou most dependest on,<lb/> A Fiddle-sticke shall winne her heart from thee.<lb/> To Youth and Musicke, Venus leaneth most;<lb/> And (though her hand she on the Scepter lay)<lb/> Let Greatnesse, of her Favours never boast:<lb/> For, Heart and Eye, are bent another way.<lb/> And lo, no glorious Purchace that Man gets,<lb/> Who hath with such poore Trifles, woo'd and wonne:<lb/> Her footing, on a Ball, his Mistresse sets,<lb/> Which in a moment slips, and she is gone.<lb/> A Woman, meerely with an Out side caught,<lb/> Or tempted with a Galliard, or a Song,<lb/> Will him forsake (whom she most lovely thought)<lb/> For Players and for Tumblers, ere't be long.<lb/> You, then, that wish your Love should ever last,<lb/> (And would enjoy Affection without changing)<lb/> Love where your Loves may worthily be plac't;<lb/> And, keepe your owne Affection, still from ranging.<lb/> Vse noble Meanes, your Longings to attaine;<lb/> Seeke equall Mindes, and well beseeming Yeares:<lb/> They are (at best) vaine Fooles, whom Follie gaine;<lb/> But, there is Blisse, where, Vertue most endeares:<lb/> And, wheresoe're, Affection shee procures,<lb/> In spight of all Temptations, it endures.<lb/> </p>

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A woman, balancing on a globe, holds a king's sceptre in her right hand, while looking at the fiddler on her left whose bow she is holding

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<p>A fickle Woman wanton growne,<lb/> Preferres a Crowd, before a Crowne.</p>

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Non sceptro sed plectro ducitur