The poems of George Daniel ... From the original mss. in the British Museum: Hitherto unprinted. Edited, with introduction, notes, and illustrations, portrait, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart: In four volumes |
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ODE LIII.
[Be not Deceived; I know it by my owne]
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Be not Deceived; I know it by my owne:Great Bodies are great Burdens, and incline
More to the Earth; participating in
A larger Measure, what proportion
Soever please your Sence;
Bignes extenuates
Its proper Faculties, with weights;
And Smaller Bodies have more Excellence.
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Like to the Servile Drudge, some noble man,Has placed in a great Castle; and you come
To see the Building, and find everie Roome
Vseles to Him; an end is All he can
Manage; or some remote
Parlour his Familye
May comprehend; whilest others lye
Vnswept till the States come, and wast and rott.
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Soe am I, in my Selfe; whilst I admireLesse Bodies, where a man is sett soe near
In all his Parts, contracted, as it were,
To a Conveniencie; and the Entire
House he keeps warme and Full,
With his owne proper Store;
Each office, Hee, with Ease, lookes ore;
And lives to vse it All; in noe Roome Dull.
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Reallie, (it may be my owne Disgrace,But) I am Confident, wee bigger men
Have Faculties lesse knitt, lesse able, then
Weaker Appearances. I doe not praise
Meer Littlenes, nor from
All Larger derogate;
But by my owne I see, and say't,
I could Lye warmer in a lesser Roome.
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