Coronemus Nos Rosis Antequam Marcescant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDD EEEEEDD FFGHGDD IJKLKKK| Let us drink and be merry dance joke and rejoice | A |
| With claret and sherry theorbo and voice | A |
| The changeable world to our joy is unjust | B |
| All treasure 's uncertain | C |
| Then down with your dust | B |
| In frolics dispose your pounds shillings and pence | D |
| For we shall be nothing a hundred years hence | D |
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| We'll sport and be free with Moll Betty and Dolly | E |
| Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy | E |
| Fish dinners will make a man spring like a flea | E |
| Dame Venus love's lady | E |
| Was born of the sea | E |
| With her and with Bacchus we'll tickle the sense | D |
| For we shall be past it a hundred years hence | D |
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| Your most beautiful bride who with garlands is crown'd | F |
| And kills with each glance as she treads on the ground | F |
| Whose lightness and brightness doth shine in such splendour | G |
| That none but the stars | H |
| Are thought fit to attend her | G |
| Though now she be pleasant and sweet to the sense | D |
| Will be damnable mouldy a hundred years hence | D |
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| Then why should we turmoil in cares and in fears | I |
| Turn all our tranquill'ty to sighs and to tears | J |
| Let 's eat drink and play till the worms do corrupt us | K |
| 'Tis certain Post mortem | L |
| Nulla voluptas | K |
| For health wealth and beauty wit learning and sense | K |
| Must all come to nothing a hundred years hence | K |
Thomas Jordan
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