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And other sfpend their time in bafe exce/s 

 Of wine or worfejn war and wantonnefs. 



Let them that lift thefe pa/limes Jiillpurjue, 

 And onfuch plea/ing fancies feed their Jill, 

 So I the fields and meadows green may view, 

 And daily by frefh Rivers walk at will, 

 Among the Daifies and the Violets blue, 

 Redttyzcm\h,and yellow Daffadil, 



Purple Narciffus,//^ the morning rayes, 

 Pale ganderglafs and azure Culverkayes. 



I count it higher pie afure to behold 

 Theflately compafs of the lofty Skie, 

 And in the midft thereof (like burning Gold] 

 'The flaming Chariot of the worlds great eye 9 

 "The watry clouds, that in the aire up rold, 

 Withfundry kindsof painted colours fly e ; 

 And fair Aurora lifting up her head, 

 Still blufhing,rife from oldTithomusfad. 



The hils and mountains raifedfrom the plains, 

 The plains extended level with Aground, 

 The grounds divided intofundry vains, 

 The vains inclofd with rivers running round \ 



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