Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 by Various
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now refer to either.
The following copy is from a cotemporary MS. containing many of the poems of Sir Edward Dyer, Edward Earl of Oxford, and their cotemporaries, several of which have never been published. The collection appears to have been made by Robert Mills, of Cambridge. Dr. Rimbault will, no doubt, be glad to compare this text with Breton's. It is, at least, much more genuine than the _composite_ one given by Bishop Percy. "My mynde to me a kyngdome is, Suche preasente joyes therin I fynde, That it excells all other blisse, That earth affordes or growes by kynde; Thoughe muche I wante which moste would have, Yet still my mynde forbiddes to crave. "No princely pompe, no wealthy store, No force to winne the victorye, No wilye witt to salve a sore, No shape to feade a loving eye; To none of these I yielde as thrall, For why? my mynde dothe serve for all. "I see howe plenty suffers ofte, And hasty clymers sone do fall, I see that those which are alofte Mishapp dothe threaten moste of all; They get with toyle, they keepe with feare, Suche cares my mynde coulde never beare. |
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