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AMBROSE PHILLIPS.

1735.

Incorrupta fides

Nudaque veritas.

Engrard by Cook after the Original D'iture by Ashton in the Collection of D. Wall.

of GREAT

CHAUCER to

COMPLETE FROM

CHURCHILL.

A.PHILIPS

come my Lovel nor think th'employment mean The Dams to milk and little Lambkins wean,

P. c.

Esterca ditem

F. Bartolozet Scrap

London Printed for John Bell British Library 13. March 1782

821.2. B428

V. 94-95

POETICAL WORKS

OF

AMBROSE PHILIPS.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Studious of case, and fond of humble things,
Below the smiles, below the frowns of kings,
Thanks to my stars, I prize the sweets of life;
No sleepless nights I count, no days of strife.
Content to live, content to die, unknown,
Lord of myself, accountable to none,
I sle. p, I wake, I drink; I sometimes love;
I read, I write, I settle, and I rove
When and where'er I please: thus ev'ry hour
Gives some new proof of my despotic pow's.
All that I will I can; but then 1 will
As reason bids; I meditate no il;

And pleas'd with things which in my level lie,
Leave it to madmen o'er the clouds to fly.

EPIST. FROM HOLLAND.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF,

6. CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, STRAND.

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