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" ... their rage of will ; Their treasure is their only trust ; A cloaked craft their store of skill : But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind. My wealth is health and perfect ease : My conscience clear my chief defence ; I neither... "
La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays ... - Page 7
by Thomas Oliphant - 1837 - 338 pages
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Drinking songs. Miscellaneous songs. Ancient ballads

Ballads, English - 1783 - 360 pages
...perfeft«afe; My confcience clear my chief defence : I never feek by bribes to pleafe, Nor by defert to give offence : Thus do I live, thus will I die ; Would all did fo as well as I. I joy not in no earthly blifs ; I weigh not Crefus' wealth a flraw 5 For care, I care...
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Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical ..., Volume 3

Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1795 - 616 pages
...perfeft eafe ; My confcience clear, my chief defence I never feck by bribes to pleafe, Nor by defert to give offence. Thus do I live, thus will I die ; Would all did do fo well as I. The following beautiful LINES, addrejjed to DR. WARNER, on his leaving LONDON, and...
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Ancient Ballads: Selected from Percy's Collection; with Explanatory Notes ...

Lady - 1807 - 1807 - 232 pages
...welth is health, and perfect ease ; My conscience clere, my chiefe defence; I never seeke by brybes to please, Nor by desert to give offence : Thus do...live, thus will I die; Would all did so, as well as I ! SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE. W HEN Arthur first in court began, And was approved king, By force of arms...
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Selection of Poems ...

Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...nor fawn on friend ; I loath not life, nor dread mine end. My wealth is health, and perfect ease ; My conscience clear, my chief defence : I never seek...live, thus will I die : Would all did so as well as I ! I joy not in no earthly bliss ; I weigh not Cra;sus's wealth a straw : For care, I care not what...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 1

Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 518 pages
...welth is health, and perfect ease ; My conscience clere my chiefe defence : I never seeke by brybes to please, Nor by desert to give offence : Thus do I live, thus will I die ; 65 Would all did so as well as I ! VI. THE PATIENT COUNTESS. The subject of this talc is taken from...
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Drinking-songs. Miscellaneous songs. Ancient ballads

Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...nor fawn on friend ; I loath not life, nor dread mine end. My wealth is health and perfect ease ; My conscience clear my chief defence : I never seek by bribes to please, I joy not in no earthly bliss ; I weigh not Crossus' wealth a straw ; For care, I care not what it...
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Excerpta Tudoriana: Or, Extracts from Elizabethan Literature, Volumes 1-2

English poetry - 1814 - 280 pages
...bane: I fear no foe, nor fawn on friend ; I loath not life, nor dread my end. Icimpta ZTuttoriaiu 103 I never seek by bribes to please ; Nor by desert to...; thus will I die ; Would all did so as well as I ! SONG, 1588. From the same. WHAT pleasure have great princes More dainty to their choice, Than herdmen...
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Excerpta Tudoriana: Or, Extracts from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 2

Excerpta Tudoriana - English poetry - 1814 - 350 pages
...nor fawn on friend; I loath not life, nor dread my end. My wealth is health, and perfect ease ; And conscience clear my chief defence : I never seek by bribes to please; Nor by desert to give olfence : Thus do I live ; thus will I die ; Would all did so as well as I ! SOtfG, 1588. From the...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...fawn no friend ; I loathe not life, nor dread mine end. My wealth is health, and perfect case : My conscience clear my chief defence : I never seek by...to please, Nor by desert to give offence : Thus do 1 live, thus will 1 die ; Would all did so as well as I ! I take no joy in earthly bliss ; 1 weigh...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 44

England - 1838 - 884 pages
...them that toil in vuin, To get what must be lost again. " My wealth is health and perfect ease, My conscience clear my chief defence ; I never seek by...offence ; Thus do I live, thus will I die. Would all did 10 as well as I." If it were fair to subject a composition of this popular kind to very serious criticism,...
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