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Preludes	A
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I Honour and Desert	B
O queen awake to thy renown	C
Require what 'tis our wealth to give	D
And comprehend and wear the crown	C
Of thy despised prerogative	D
I who in manhood's name at length	E
With glad songs come to abdicate	F
The gross regality of strength	E
Must yet in this thy praise abate	F
That through thine erring humbleness	A
And disregard of thy degree	G
Mainly has man been so much less	A
Than fits his fellowship with thee	G
High thoughts had shaped the foolish brow	H
The coward had grasp'd the hero's sword	I
The vilest had been great hadst thou	H
Just to thyself been worth's reward	I
But lofty honours undersold	J
Seller and buyer both disgrace	A
And favours that make folly bold	J
Banish the light from virtue's face	A
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II Love and Honour	H
What man with baseness so content	K
Or sick with false conceit of right	L
As not to know that the element	M
And inmost warmth of love's delight	L
Is honour Who'd not rather kiss	A
A duchess than a milkmaid prank	N
The two in equal grace which is	A
Precedent Nature's obvious rank	N
Much rather then a woman deck'd	O
With saintly honours chaste and good	P
Whose thoughts celestial things affect	O
Whose eyes express her heavenly mood	Q
Those lesser vaunts are dimm'd or lost	R
Which plume her name or paint her lip	S
Extinct in the deep glowing boast	T
Of her angelic fellowship	S
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III Valour misdirected	U
I'll hunt for dangers North and South	V
To prove my love which sloth maligns	A
What seems to say her rosy mouth	V
I'm not convinced by proofs but signs	A
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Love In Idleness	A
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I	-
What should I do In such a wife	W
Fortune had lavish'd all her store	H
And nothing now seem'd left for life	W
But to deserve her more and more	H
To this I vow'd my life's whole scope	X
And Love said I forewarn you now	H
The Maiden will fulfil your hope	X
Only as you fulfil your vow	H
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II	-
A promised service task for days	A
Was done this morning while she slept	Y
With that full heart which thinks no praise	A
Of vows which are not more than kept	Y
But loftier work did love impose	A
And studious hours Alas for these	A
While she from all my thoughts arose	A
Like Venus from the restless seas	A
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III	-
I conn'd a scheme with mind elate	F
My Uncle's land would fall to me	G
My skill was much in school debate	F
My friends were strong in Salisbury	G
A place in Parliament once gain'd	Z
Thro' saps first labour'd out of sight	L
Far loftier peaks were then attain'd	Z
With easy leaps from height to height	L
And that o'erwhelming honour paid	A2
Or recognised at least in life	W
Which this most sweet and noble Maid	A2
Should yield to him who call'd her Wife	W
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IV	W
I fix'd this rule in Sarum Close	A
To make two visits every week	B2
The first to day and save on those	A
I nought would do think read or speak	B2
Which did not help my settled will	C2
To earn the Statesman's proud applause	A
And now forthwith to mend my skill	C2
In ethics politics and laws	A
The Statesman's learning Flush'd with power	H
And pride of freshly form'd resolve	W
I read Helvetius half an hour	H
But halting in attempts to solve	W
Why more than all things else that be	G
A lady's grace hath force to move	W
That sensitive appetency	A
Of intellectual good call'd love	W
Took Blackstone down only to draw	H
My swift deriving thoughts ere long	D2
To love which is the source of law	H
And like a king can do no wrong	D2
Then open'd Hyde where loyal hearts	A
With faith unpropp'd by precedent	M
Began to play rebellious parts	A
O mighty stir that little meant	K
How dull the crude plough'd fields of fact	E2
To me who trod the Elysian grove	W
How idle all heroic act	E2
By the least suffering of love	W
I could not read so took my pen	F2
And thus commenced in form of notes	A
A Lecture for the Salisbury men	F2
With due regard to Tory votes	A
A road's a road though worn to ruts	A
They speed who travel straight therein	G2
But he who tacks and tries short cuts	A
Gets fools' praise and a broken shin	G2
And here I stopp'd in sheer despair	H
But what to day was thus begun	H2
I vow'd up starting from my chair	H
To morrow should indeed be done	H2
So loosed my chafing thoughts from school	I2
To play with fancy as they chose	A
And then according to my rule	I2
I dress'd and came to Sarum Close	A
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V	G
Ah that sweet laugh Diviner sense	A
Did Nature forming her inspire	H
To omit the grosser elements	A
And make her all of air and fire	H
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VII	G
To morrow Cowes Regatta fell	J2
The Dean would like his girls to go	K2
If I went too Most gladly Well	J2
I did but break a foolish vow	G
Unless Love's toil has love for prize	A
And then he's Hercules above	G
All other contrarieties	A
Is labour contrary to love	G
No fault of Love's but nature's laws	A
And Love in idleness lies quick	L2
For as the worm whose powers make pause	A
And swoon through alteration sick	L2
The soul its wingless state dissolved	M2
Awaits its nuptial life complete	N2
All indolently self convolved	N2
Cocoon'd in silken fancies sweet	N2

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