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OW happy is he borne or taught, That ferveth not anothers will; Whose armour is his honeft thought, And fimple truth his highest skill:

Whose paffions not his master are ;
Whose foule is still prepar'd for death;
Not ty'd unto the world with care
Of princes ear, or vulgar breath :

Who hath his life from rumours freed;
Whose conscience is his strong retreat ;
Whose state can neither flatterers feed,

Nor ruine make accufers great :

Who envies none, whom chance doth raise,
Or vice: Who never understood
How deepest wounds are given with praise,
Nor rules of state, but rules of good :

Who God doth late and early pray

His graces more then gifts to lend ; And entertaines the harmlesse day

With a well-chofen booke or friend.

This man is freed from fervile bands
Of hope to rife, or feare to fall ;-
Lord of himselfe, though not of lands;
And having nothing yet hath all.

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XIII.

UNFADING BEAUTY.

This little beautiful fonnet is reprinted from a fmall of" Poems by THOMAS CAREW, Efq; one of the g men of the privie-chamber, and fewer in ordinary "majefty (Charles I). Lond. 1640." This elegant, almoft-forgotten writer, whose poems deferve to be died in the prime of his age, in 1639.

In the original follows a third ftanza, which not being of general application, nor of equal merit, I have vard

But a fmooth and stedfast mind,

Gentle thoughts, and calme defires,
Hearts with equal love combin'd

Kindle never-dying fires :

Where these are not I defpife

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Lovely cheekes, or lips, or eyes.

XIV.

GILDER OY,

was a famous robber, who lied about the middle the last century, if we may credit the biftories and floryooks of highwaymen, which relate many improbable feats f him, as his robbing Cardinal Richlieu, Oliver Cromwell, 3c. But thefe ftories have probably no other authority, than he records of Grub-street: At least the GILDEROY, who is he hero of Scottish Song fters, Jeems to have lived in an earlier age; for in Thompson's Orpheus Calidonius, vol. 2. 1733. 8vo. is a copy of this ballad, which tho' corrupt and interpolated, contains fome lines that appear to be of genuine antiquity: in thefe he is reprefented as contemporary with Mary 2 of Scots: ex. gr.

"The Queen of Scots poffeffed nought,
"That my love let me want:
"For cow and ew he brought to me,
"And ein whan they were fcant."

Thofe lines perhaps might fafely have been inferted aming the following fianzas, which are given from a written copy. that feems to have received fome modern corrections. Indeed the common popular ballad contained fome indecent luxuriance: that required the pruning book.

GIL

— was a famous robber, subo it we spent our prime,

be left century, if we may credit in.
ks of bigb-waynen, rubich relate mo
ma: bis robbing Cardinal Ricona, una cme

. But these stories bave probabi
records of Grab-ftreet: At katresn
bere of Scottip Songfers, jeems to harv

baith fixteen,

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he langsome time,

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es fae green;

e'd fit us thair,

age; for in Thompson's Green

33. 800. is a copy of this boat.

nd interpolated, contains fome lɛu

erine antiquity: in theje be is represan on a

b Mary 2. of Scots: ex. gr.

and toy,