Cobbold Valentines

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  Cobbold Valentine 68 - "The Prize - Queen Mab"
  Transcription: Thro’ fantastic Fairy Bowr’s Culling meets from Dewy Flowrs, See Mab the Queen of Fancy riding, Her chariot Love and Hymen guiding. Fraught with many a blissful Dream, Along your rosy Lips to rove And breathe the tend’rest Kiss of Love: Nor dread her touch, my Lovely Fair, She’ll plant no angry Blisters there But guard with vision pure and Blest your gentle Bosom’s balmy rest. And if your waking thoughts incline To bless your faithful Valentine, Then each soft dream shall prove a Prize That Love and Hymen realize.__
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  Cobbold Valentine 67 - "Cupid with a dog"
  Transcription: No greater Bliss our Book of Fate discloses, Nor Life affords a Blessing more decided, Than Love, that on Fidelity reposes, By meek Affection ever gently guided: And you, my lovely Fair, shall ever prove Such meek Affection, and such Faithful Love.
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  Cobbold Valentine 66 - "A Casket"
  Transcription: Where shall we find a Jewel rare To treasure in the Casket fair Pearls, Emeralds, Rubies shall we muster Or bring the Diamonds brighter Lustre No Lady No There is a gem whose brilliant sheen, Transcends all those whose Ray serene Far [hapeth] shew Does Wealth or Pow’r this gem supply Or Wit or Beautys sparkling Eye No Lady No Let Truth the sacred Gift impart It is an honest faithful Heart. With tender pure affection giv’n This richest gem does bounteous Heav’n on you bestow
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  Cobbold Valentine 65 - "Fortune"
  Transcription: For you, my Fair, see Fortune showers Each Bliss her treasures can impart, And, with her Wealth and Splendor, pours Love’s dearest gift, a faithful Heart. What better mode could Fortune find To prove herself no longer blind? [Mrs] Ann [R]ussel
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  Cobbold Valentine 64 - "Memory"
  Transcription: Daughter of Love: and memory is her name hail memory, hail the Lover’s faithful friend, Who cheer’st the night of absence, [thro’] the gloom, Bright visions conjuring with silver wand, And spreading Light soft as the trembling gleam Of moon Beams on the Lake, be thou the Guard Of Constancy, and to that gentle Breast Which then tonight dost visit, [future] forth The living Image of her faithful Love[!] And if it [aught] resemble her descent, How bright[, how] fair! O may she ever bless Thy Pow’r for many a dear [second’d] of joy And not one sorrow visit her with thee!
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  Cobbold Valentine 63 - "Corona Borealis"
  Transcription: The stormy Crown whose Lustre [c]lear, Illumes our Norther hemisphere, With lessen’d radience shines tonight Dimmed by the living Beams benign, Of Eyes that greet Saint Valentine, In Love and Beauty dully bright. ‘Tis well that heavenly bodies know No dread of rival charms below; Else might you doubt the gratulation This Crown presents, since sure to find The Virtues of your heart and mind, And fairer, brighter Constellation.
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  Cobbold Valentine 62 - Angel and Peacock
  Transcription: What joys your happy Lot betide! For you affections bridles Pride Nor Scorn with Argus Eyes unkind Shall [mark] your actions too severely For Love though oft depicted blind Has here distinguish’d very clearly A gentle Heart a spotless Mind – Miss Richards
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  Cobbold Valentine 61 - Harlequin
  Transcription: your merry motley valentine Greets you his gentle Columbine, And gladly promises to you A Lover Chearful, Brave and true Then join his mirth, approve his spirit, And with your smiles reward his merit.
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  Cobbold Valentine 60 - Woman at Spinning Wheel
  Transcription: Say have you with our soothing Bard, To Sentiment and mem’ry true Wish’d “ Lucy at her Wheel might sing “ In russet Gown and apron blue.[”] And if to mild domestic Care She add that so[ul] subduing Tone That like a “Spirit of the Air Speaks to our Hearts & breathes [] own” Then all the joys of Home for you And Life’s best Bliss, shall daily prove In softened voice of song, [how true] That “Love is Heav’n and Heav’n is Love
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  Cobbold Valentine 59 - Goose
  Transcription: Has Fortune been to you unkind? An added Proof the Dame is blind! And since tonight she made you choose That awkward Bird, a cackling Goose, Believe me, Sir, your safest Plan Will be to think your Goose a Swan: If wisely you this Scheme pursue You’ll make the World believe it too
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  Cobbold Valentine 58 - Woman Reading Palm
  Transcription: Cross my Hand, worthy Si, and I’ll freely relate What for you is inscrib’d in the Records of fate; Whatever of magical skill you can fancy, Of Palmistry Lines, or expert Chriomancy I know and am skill’d in Egyptian Astronomy But an Adept am chiefly in grave Physiognomy: I know by the Turn of your Nose and your Chin At Cards you must lose, and in Battle must win By [the] lines of your Brown, and the form of your Eyes One may venture to fancy you Valiant and wise. What more of your Fate would you wish me to [prive]? Would you know if your Lot is successful in Love? A Hint shall suffice and since [myst’ry] my Trade is That Lot you must read in the Eyes of the Ladies.
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  Cobbold Valentine 57 - "Cupid Catching a Butterfly"
  Transcription: Ah, [hot] with rash ungovern’d speed Be passion’s rapid have pursu’d! Your steps let wary prudence lead, Lest she you seek your grasp elude: For oft the flutt’ring heart with prove A very Butterfly to Love. But if each kind, each tender care, That honor sanctions you employ And every ruder step forbear, That timid heart to you shall fly; There, free from all alarm shall rest, And dwell securely in your breast.
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  Cobbold Valentine 56 - Cottage
  Transcription: Eye not with scorn the rural Cot, The woodland Glad, the meadow fair, Since Love and Peace shall bless your Lot And form for you an Eden there.
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  Cobbold Valentine 55 - "The Choice of Hercules"
  Transcription: The Choice of Hercules. By Pleasures siren Accents wooed, And warn’d by Virtue’s Voice; Awhile the Hero pensive stood Then fix’d his glorious Choice And found, in Virtue’s bright Abode, The Joys the honors of a God! O never for the feeling Heart Be Cup Circean pour’d! But Virtue purer sweets impart With Reason’s Blessings stor’d: Then emulate the Choice divine, And Bliss shall crown your Valentine.
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  Cobbold Valentine 54 - Tree with Vines
  Transcription: Around the Elms majestic Form The Woodbine throws her pliant arms There shelters safe her blooming Charms There finds Protection from the Storm And oer each Proud and lofty Bough Bids Beauty Grace and sweetness [blow] So manly sense shall doubly charm When in its Bosom Love confides When shielding Innocence from harm Meek Tenderness it guards and guides Be you the Elm the graceful Bine Shall be your faithful Valentine
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  Cobbold Valentine 53 - Angel
  Transcription: An Angel? Such the ardent Lover In youths fond Dream can oft discover! But he whose calm and tutor’d spirit, Seeks mortal worth and modest merit, Who not, with vain and selfish pride In Heavn’s Perfection decks his Bride, Shall find, in happy wedded Life, Angelic Charms to grace the Wife.
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  Cobbold Valentine 52 - "The Prize!"
  Transcription: The Prize! Say what may this betide? It promises a wealthy Bride; The Queen of Diamonds, formed to shine, With Treasure of Golconda’s Mine. And since tis not affirm’d that Wealth Precludes bright Beauty, Wit, or Wealth. [I trust] that all to night combine To bless your favor’s Valentine, And you may fairly boast her Charm Who b[r]ings a Milton to your Arms.
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  Cobbold Valentine 51 - "Gold Fish in a Vase"
  Transcription: Have you, this ev’ning, Lady mine, Been fishing for a Valentine? The world may think your fishing deep, Since golden fish you catch and keep: But you, tho envy may repine, Contented keep your Valentine, And laugh at have who can discover No fault but wealth to blot your lover.
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  Cobbold Valentine 50 - Cherubs on Gondola
  Transcription: Unve[x]ed by Storms, untost by Tides, The Gondola triumphant glides And Love the Boat delighted guides, So, on Life’s gentlest Current borne, By not tempestuous Passions torn, Shall Love your Fortunes Bark adorn.
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  Cobbold Valentine 49 - Woman with Basket Standing under Arch
  Transcription: With timid footsteps spring advances To scatter flow’rets [thro’] the Vale Oft backward turns with fearful glances And dreads to meet the hostile gale And so does love at first essay His influence o’er the heart to gain By gentle steps pursues his way And trembles at your Eye disdain Then cheer his hopes his fears disarm Your smile can like the sunbeams warm.
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  Cobbold Valentine 48 - Solar System
  Transcription: 1 Mark how Planets all combine To form your radiant Valentine, And each its loveliest Lustre wears, As circling in their Mystic Spheres They whisper Hope and Joy 2 But know you not, A star more bright That greets you with a fairer Light, Whose Aspect to the Lovers Heart, Can more of Warmth, of Joy impart? It is your Lady’s Eye. And that for you with Smiles Divine Shall still uchang’d, unclouded shine.
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  Cobbold Valentine 47 - Heart with Wings
  Transcription: Love, on light Wings, as Poets say From Chime to Chime pursues his Way, And Show ye not that Love imparts His pow’r of Flight to Ladies hearts? Behold a heart which thus prepar’d Esteems those Wings its holiest Guard: It flies from Anger’s wordy War, From Bacchanalian Riot far, Shuns the coarse manners, vulgar mind, But Loves to live with Taste refin’d: And when it finds a gentle Breast, Where Constancy and honour rest, If joys a happy home to prove And yields his useless Wings to Love. Then make Affection’s Treasures thine, And greet this tender Valentine.
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  Cobbold Valentine 46 - Seven Flowers in the Grass
  Transcription: For you cull’d the vernal sweets, For you the fairest Flow’rets chose, His fragrant Breath your Bosom greets From [op’ning] Pink and dewy Rose; His [sip] that with the Ruby glow, Has kist each Flowr of vernal Dye; But humbler Blooms his Hopes disclose; One timid Blossom courts your Eye, And Love shall bless his happy Lot If you repeat, “Forget me not.”
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  Cobbold Valentine 45 - Cannon
  Transcription: Not [trimly] deck’d with Fancies fine Appears your honest Valentine A plain blunt Soldiers Eloquence Is simple Truth and common Sense Though few the Words his Love to shew He speaks in Thunder to the Foe Then Lady chuse for Life the Friend Whose Heart can cherish Hand defend And sure your Bosoms, best Director Is such a Husband and Protector.
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  Cobbold Valentine 44 - Magician with Monkey
  Transcription: Mysterious is the mighty Book of Fate; And dark its answers.__ I have read the stars, And mark’d their aspects, which benignly glance: And I have fram’d, with Incantations wild, And potent Magic, many a subtle spell, What Lot for you they give: but Fate forbids To write it plainly: yet this mystic scheme, Fraught with rude symbols, to your Eye unfolds Their secret Characters.
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  Cobbold Valentine 43 - Torch
  Transcription: Behold [her] heaven directed Hands Together bound in holy Band[s], Combine with equal faithful [cl]aim In cherishing one sacred Flame This happy omen Lady measure And greet [yr] Valentine with [pleasure]
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  Cobbold Valentine 42 - Figures Dancing Around Cloud
  Transcription: Though sweet the Music of the spheres Why should we seek its strain to know, It is not heard by mortal Ears, Nor can on Mortals Bliss bestow. Though bright the Stars in yonder sky, No warmth their distant Rays impart, Thy soften’d Voice and brilliant Eye Can soothe the soul and warm the heart, Then sweetly sing and mildly shine And bid thy Lover’s Bliss be thine.
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  Cobbold Valentine 41 - Pharoah Monument
  Transcription: ‘Tis said that when Morning Sun On Memnon’s famous Statue shone Warm’d by its rays the chilly Stone Breath’d Music’s soul-subduing Tone That fill’d the mystic Temple’s Bounds With Harmony’s responsive Sounds. So where your Heart’s fond Prediction Beam’d on its Object of Affection It warm’d e’en through its inmost Fold The Breast, till then reserv’d and cold And made it vibrate with a Tone Of Love accorded to your own That shall to wedded life supply A just, and sacred Harmony.__
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  Cobbold Valentine 40 - Saint, Figure with Anchor, Mother with Child, and Couple Embracing
  Transcription: Our cheerful Saint this Emblem traces, In playful Fancy to discover How by your aid, all holy Graces May wait upon your favor’d Lover. This faith, intensely pure and bright, No Vapours blot, no wand’rings ma[r]e; For till your Eye’s celestial Light, H[av been its] sacred guiding [Star]: [Hope] too is his; her soothing [Pow’r] [Bide] many a blissful [Vision] rise, And whispers each approaching Hour Those facing Dreams may realize. Then Lady let your kind Regard For him combine the sainted three: His faith accept, his Hope reward And crown them with your Charity.
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  Cobbold Valentine 39 - Flowers under Canopy
  Transcription: Our Saint to-night is proud to bring The choicest Beauties of the Spring To breathe their Fragrance here: In Splendor each Carnation vies To be esteem’d the fairest prize That decks the growing year. Each shelter’d from the Sun’s rude Power, Protected from the ruder Shower, In cloister’d Safety dwells. Many the Rose and Pink admire, Or yellow Daffodil desire, And some the fair Blue-Bells. But you, Sir, I would dare surmise Will not disdain to take the Prize Now offer’d to your View: The fairest, finest, opening Flow’r, That here adorns this festive Hour May haply fall to you. If then, within a Mile or so, Which is not very far to go, You see such Beauties grown, Within a Twelvemonth deign to wed, The fairest, from its native Bed Transplanted to your own.
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  Cobbold Valentine 38 - Fairy Queen and Fairies on Toadstools
  Transcription: Robin-Good-Fellow. _. “’Tis now the Time, as Swains relate, When evry Bird selects his Mate; Now Elves to eastern [Climes] resort, Their sprightly fairy Dames to court, And hold their Revels, blythe and boon, Beneath the [m]ild and dewy Moon: What, in this consecrated Hour, Exempt from aught of Mischeifs Pow’r, [h]as Oberon, mid Lovers [true], For Robin-Good-Fellow to do?” Oberon “To Britain’s eastern Coast repair, Where gently glides the Orwell fair, There shalt thou find a chearful Dame, More graced by happiness than Fame, What gives to-night a festive scene, In Honor of our Fairy Queen, And Britain’s loveliest Daughters there The mental Revel freely share, And draw the merry Valentine, Inscrib’d with many a sportive Line: Go th[e]re, and so the [P]ackets guide That each, appropriately supplied, May find an Emblem to impart The secret Wishes of her Heart, And Beauty’s animated smile Shall well reward thy wanton Wile, And mirth and unaffected Glee Shall join that gentle Revelry. I will not, Puck, where all are fair Presume to bid thee choose the fairest; But to thy Love this Billet bear, And when thy Choice thou thus declarest, Tell her that, in her sparkling Eye, Such gay good-humour though couldst spy, Such Wit, thou couldst not but opine That she would share these Tricks of thine, And bid that Eyes bright Lustre shine Approving on her Valentine.
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  Cobbold Valentine 37 - Birds on Branch and Windowsill
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  Cobbold Valentine 36 - "A Mitre"
  Transcription: Can you, fair Lady, here discover A hint to indicate your Lover? Each honor his profession knows, This merit’s just reward: Though dignities and wealth she showers, How trivial does he feel their powers Compar’d with your regard.
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  Cobbold Valentine 35 - "A Heart Broiling on a Grid-Iron"
  Transcription: See b[r]oiling for you a most excellent heart, Pray don’t let it scorch gentle Lady [or] was[t]e, We hope with such warmth as its fire can impart, You’ll presently own it is [dressed] to your taste.
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  Cobbold Valentine 34 - Playing Cards and Flowers
  Transcription: This Valentine a hint imparts To Ladies who would win in hearts The ace whose Power commands the whole [Shews modest] Candor’s pure Control Then Prudence shines in regal State With Sensibility his mate White [gay] good humour n[o]thing [cost] Attends the Waiting knave of [both] [h]ail Power’s combin’d to charm and please The honours of the heart are these And she who justly these can claim Shall need no [trick] to win her Game
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  Cobbold Valentine 33 - Fairy with Flowers
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  Cobbold Valentine 32 - Flowers, Quill, and Pencil Tied with Bow
  Transcription: The Pen and the Pencil your Valentine true, With Garlands of Roses has circled for you, But deems not, presumptuous, their magic combin’d Can picture the charms of his Valentine mind.
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  Cobbold Valentine 31 - Men in Lifeboat
  Transcription: Cast on a Rock when Breakers foam, With scarce a Hope of help on home, Rejoic’d the Shipwreck’d Sailor Spies The Life Boat on the Billows rise; So toss’d by doubts conflicting Waves Fears restless Breakers foaming [mist], The Life Boat of Affection saves, And bears you to a Home of Joy.
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  Cobbold Valentine 30 - Woman with Baby in a Basket
  Transcription: On roses cradled Cupid smil’d, And Beauty lull’d the playful child, While from her breast the tender dove, A dowry pillow form’d for Love,- Calm his repose serenely blest; But sweeter far shall Cupid rest If cradled in your gentle breast.
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  Cobbold Valentine 29 - Two Men with Cow and Flame
  Transcription: Of old the Heifer crownd with flowers In Pagan rites was led A [vic]tim to unhallow’d Pow’rs And on their Altar bled But to Affections Altar now Are [purer] Off’rings given For Lovers breathe the Holy vow, Beneath the Eye of Heav’n And those who hope for wedded Joys Shall best their vows fulfill By learning each to sacrifice A Portrait of their Will
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  Cobbold Valentine 28 - Quail and Serpent
  Transcription: Your’s Lady is the constant Love, The tender Meekness of the Dove; In scaly Volumes vainly roll’d, Shall Falshood wreathe her serpent [F]old, Shall vainly seek to do you Wrong, And wield in vain her double Tongue: Serene you walk, your sure Defence The Bride of conscious Innocence.
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  Cobbold Valentine 27 - Sewing Kit
  Transcription: Fair Lady, if your Valentine With more than usual Merit shine, That like the Comets lengthen’d Blaze Attracts the universal gaze, Heed not when Rumours [Tole] Voice Would cloud the Lustre of your Choice, And find in Genius splendors bright Some dire Portent, some lurid Light. Be yours the Philosophic Eye That loves the Wonders of the Sky, Deems not each Path e[x]centric Error Nor sullies Glory’s Train with Terror.
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  Cobbold Valentine 26 - Comet
  Transcription: Fair Lady, if your Valentine With more than usual Merit shine, That like the Comets lengthen’d Blaze Attracts the universal gaze, Heed not when Rumours [Tole] Voice Would cloud the Lustre of your Choice, And find in Genius splendors bright Some dire Portent, some lurid Light. Be yours the Philosophic Eye That loves the Wonders of the Sky, Deems not each Path e[x]centric Error Nor sullies Glory’s Train with Terror.
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  Cobbold Valentine 25 - Man in the Moon
  Transcription: What curious [Visitor] is here St Valentines mysterious boon A being of another sphere The man we picture in the moon From that clear [orb] when Beauty deeps He steals a glance demure + shy And through the [bay] closed curtains peeps [Her dreams her] midnight [thoughts] to [spy] And often too, he can discover Some secrets Ladies will not tell For instance now your favorite Lover The name he [] but guards i[t] well And yet a little [p]int he gives To put in in a [griefring spirit] He who in your affection lives Must be a man of sense + merit
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  Cobbold Valentine 24 - Cherubs Atop Elephant
  Transcription: In castled strength see Cupid rides, And Asias sylvan Monarch guides, Thence gaily deals unnerving Darts, And bring to you whole strings of Hearts. So Love, within your laughing Eyes Secure as in a castle lies, And draws from that unfailing sou[rce] United Eloquence and Force.
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  Cobbold Valentine 23 - Robin Hood
  Transcription: Away to the Bow’r cries Robin Hood To the festive board away For the noblest Ha[r]t in merry Sherwood Maid Marion has pierc[’d] today [Ah] Robin these are idle sounds Replies Saint Valentine For the noblest Heart in England bounds Is pierc’d by a [Vot’ry] of mine And who is this [Vot’ry] Saint of thine That can choose and shoot so true For a better shot than Marion fine Quoth Robin I never knew. Said the Saint I may not tell her name But I’ll venture a Hint at least This Billet is sent to her and the same Bids prepare for a wedding feast
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  Cobbold Valentine 22 - Laurel Branch
  Transcription: Renown and Glory here bestow A Laurel Wreath to bind your Brow And laughing Love to crown their [C]are Has twin’d the fragrant Myrtle there To shew that Valours meed shall prove Most lovely when combin’d with Love.
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  Cobbold Valentine 21 - Pheasants and Chicks
  Transcription: What Lot is for you in the Records of Fate They tell of a rich and an elegant mate Of Sylvan Retreats ever rural and pleasant Of manors well stock’d with the Partridge and Pheasant They point to this Emblem and bid you prepare In duties and Pleasures Domestic to share
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  Cobbold Valentine 20 - Pagoda
  Transcription: Richest [St]ore From China’s Shores Treasures of the East Wait on thy Behest: Gold and Gems before thee laid Are but off’rings duly paid, And all the Treasures faithful [L]ove To thee can tender, here shall prove No Idol Worship, but the Duty Affection vows to Worth and Beauty.
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  Cobbold Valentine 19 - Rooster on Log
  Transcription: The Heart Ruff beats his sounding Wing And lifts his plumed [cun slate] From Lakes [fringed] shore or distant spring Or fore[st] deep to call his mate - This [lot] dear Lady mu[st] discover While distant [times] a [hero own] him That [f]ame’s loud voice applaud[s] your Lover And victory [] in [Triumph crown him].
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  Cobbold Valentine 18 - Harp
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  Cobbold Valentine 17 - Shepherdess and Sheep
  Transcription: Tis not that we would here [ex]press A coarse and vulgar Shepherdess Of England or of [Scotia], My Song is of the olden Time And fam’d Arcadia’s pastoral Rhyme Or [V]allies of Boatia Kings Duaghters then with Flocks [w’]rove And Gentlewomen spun and wove Nor fail’d in Grace nor Beauty [E]’en such your Shepherdess Appears Who rur’al Life with Grace endears, And each domestic Duty!__
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  Cobbold Valentine 16 - Church
  Transcription: In sending this Lot it was Fortunes Intent, To indicate Blessings to you and your Lover. But if either a Church of a Churchman be meant, Is left for yourself to discover.
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  Cobbold Valentine 15 - Woman Leaning Against Pillar
  Transcription: No adverse Fate shall here prevail Nor sorrow bid thy Heart repine What Danger can thy Breast afsail When Truth and Constancy are thine
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  Cobbold Valentine 14 - Prometheus
  Transcription: Prometheus caught a heav’nly ray To animate his Man of Clay The sacred light of [wis]dom stole And [p]our’d it o’er [th’]awakning [Soul]; For this condemn’d by angry Jove, Because he [misc’d] no [Fire] from Love. But when the Monarch saw the Light That sparkled in your [virtues bright] To you in bounteous Dole he [granted]. The compound Flame Prometheus wanted, And he who owns this Flame from you Loves ardently and wisely too__
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  Cobbold Valentine 13 - "Groupe of Hearts on an Altar"
  Transcription: Though Vanity courts you with Hearts in Profusion, Your Sense will avo[id] the fantastic Illusion, And chusing one Heart with decisive Election, Unite it to yours in the Bonds of Affection.
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  Cobbold Valentine 12 - Fireplace Bellow
  Transcription: Your Valentine deserves no buffing These Bellows are not made for puffing But as the Fair [one] wills they move To fan the [purest] flame of Love They’ve [now unsigned] to your [popepin] Then take [& use] them with [discression.]
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  Cobbold Valentine 11 - Arrows in Quiver with Floral Bow
  Transcription: Though Fate my Fair, [‘]to thee deliver Love’s Bow, his Arrows and his Quiver, No Mischeif shall with thee be found. Thou shall so twine with Flowr’s the Dart, String with such gentle shill the Heart That all who feel shall bless the Wound.
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  Cobbold Valentine 10 - Dogs Chasing Birds
  Transcription: How [prized] if rightly understood, The chance [our] Lottery sends, A Brace of Pointers Haunch [& joad], It wisely [recommends]. No [roving Dogs Sir], here we bring Of Ladies making Game; But when the Birds are on the wing, Tis time to take your [Aim]. And let that aim be just and true, Your Choice [discreyt], though free For ‘tis Affection points for you Well back’d by Constancy __
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  Cobbold Valentine 9 - Angel Holding Heart Atop Pillar
  Transcription: Dis-dain dear Maid coquettish Art Say yes nor let thine accents falter Love offers thee a faithful Heart And Hymen [m]oves thee to the Altar.
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  Cobbold Valentine 8 - Friction Machine
  Transcription: What though your wit’s electric blaze With brilliant coruscation plays, What though the lightning of your eyes [A flash more] bright than [this] supplies And all your [v]ario[us] graces prove A perfect battery of Love Ye[t] you [perhaps] fair Lady mark May [chime] yourself to take a spark.
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  Cobbold Valentine 7 - Trophy Cup
  Transcription: What tho’ no military Swain Perchance your Inclination chose[!] A Trophy can the Maid disdain Whose Charms so many Conquests gains, Whose virtues triumph oer her [gr]oes?
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  Cobbold Valentine 6 - Zebra, or African Wild Ass
  Transcription: An a[r]sless Valentine you find Free & [unfettered] as the wind No fraud no artifice [has charmed her] Or to a masters bidding [hained] her. Wild oer’ her native plain she flies Bright spirit sparkling in her eyes O! rather gently [lure] than blame her Tis yours to catch the romp and [tame] her.
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  Cobbold Valentine 5 - Flower Arrangement on Decorated Table
  Transcription: Have not thy Cares and fostering Hand Rear’d the first Visitants of Spring And taught their Blossoms to expand While Winter lagg’d on sullen Wing And thus with thee, Affections Joy[s] No angry Passions shall deform Domestic Blessings round thee [r]ise And laugh at each external Storm.
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  Cobbold Valentine 4 - Butterflies with Banner
  Transcription: Well may you in your Lot rejoice St Valentine is kind And sends you here abundant Choice Of Beauty and of Mind. __
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  Cobbold Valentine 3 - Nosegay
  Transcription: While the flowers of summer for you are display’d Select of the sweetest a Nosegay fair Maid [Be] winter or Tempests then Beauty can [blot], To bind for your breast in a true Lover’s [knot].
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  Cobbold Valentine 2 - Jockey Riding Horse
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  Cobbold Valentine 1 - Moth
  Transcription: Thy Valentine, on Pleasure’s Wing, Has sported in the gales of Spring, And play’d the gay the wandring Lover. Resolving now no more to roam, He makes thy peaceful Breast his Home, ‘Tis thine to Charm and Home, [fix] the Rover.