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Page 375 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean; So many years...
Page 375 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run...
Page 376 - ... treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth! And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 375 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes! it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His...
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| Title | The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cutts, Volume 4 The Works of Mr. William Shakespear;: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cutts, William Shakespeare |
| Authors | William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe |
| Contributors | Jacob Tonson, Daniel Midwinter, Arthur Bettesworth |
| Publisher | J. Tonson: and are to be sold, 1714 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Jul 2007 |
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