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 VI.
[Noe more!]
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Noe more!Let me awhile be free,
To my dear Muses; exercise your power
On other men, not me;
I am a freeman; know,
I am my Selfe; and you
Can but pretend, (at best) for what you fight;
Long vsurpation cannot give you right.
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'Tis mine,The heart you would Subdue,
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Of many years, to you;
I will, in the high Court
Of Iustice, make report,
Of my Sad Case, and beg, on bended knees,
I may have right, from Him who all wrong Sees.
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'Tis true,You entred by a sleight,
Vpon my simple nonage; for you drew
A faire pretext of right;
Few freinds (God wot) I had,
To give advice or ayde;
But I must yeild my Earlie years, to those
Who strangers were, and were, indeed, my foes.
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Now, Man,Shall I be Slavéd Still?
And kept a Child, with Trifles? Noe, I can
Not Soe forget the Skill
By nature lent; my years
Are now past Childish fears,
And my free Spirrit scornes to obey your power:
Goe seeke an orphan, I am yours noe more.
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