"Provided still, you moderate your Joy, / Nor in your Pleasures all your Might employ: / Let Reason's Rule your strong Desires abate, / Nor please too lavishly your gentle Mate."
January and May; Or, The Merchant's Tale [from Tonson's Miscellanies]
Over 35 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1709, 1716, 1717, 1720,  1727, 1736, 1740, 1741, 1742, 1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1757, 1760, 1762, 1764, 1766, 1769, 1770, 1772, 1773, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1785, 1789, 1790, 1794, 1795, 1797, 1800). [Collected in <u>The Works of the English Poets</u>]<br>
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See <u>Poetical Miscellanies: the Sixth Part. Containing a Collection of Original Poems, With Several New Translations. By the Most Eminent Hands.</u> (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate, next Grays-Inn Lane, 1709), p. 177-224. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111878626&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;
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See also <u>The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Modernis'd by Several Hands. Publish'd by Mr. Ogle.</u>, 3 vols. (London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand, 1741). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110635735&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;