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ENGLISH COUNTRY GENTLEMEN.
His certain life, that never can deceive him,
Is full of thousand sweets and rich content;
The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him
With coolest shade, till noontide's heat be spent.
His life is neither tost in boisterous seas
Or the vexatious world; or lost in slothful case,
Pleased and full blest he lives when he his God can please.
Is full of thousand sweets and rich content;
The smooth-leaved beeches in the field receive him
With coolest shade, till noontide's heat be spent.
His life is neither tost in boisterous seas
Or the vexatious world; or lost in slothful case,
Pleased and full blest he lives when he his God can please.
Phineas Fletcher.
I take great pleasure in accompanying
the squire in his perambulations
about his estate, in which he is often
attended by a kind of cabinet council.
His prime minister, the steward, is a
very worthy and honest old man, that
assumes a right of way; that is to say, a
right to have his own way, from having
lived time out of mind on the place. He
loves the estate even better than he does