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Lordly gallants tell me this	A
Though my safe content you weigh not	B
In your greatness what one bliss	A
Have you gained that I enjoy not	B
You have honours you have wealth	C
I have peace and I have health	C
All the day I merry make	D
And at night no care I take	D
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Bound to none my fortunes be	E
This or that man's fall I fear not	B
Him I love that loveth me	E
For the rest a pin I care not	B
You are sad when others chaff	F
And grow merry as they laugh	F
I that hate it and am free	E
Laugh and weep as pleaseth me	E
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You may boast of favours shown	G
Where your service is applied	H
But my pleasures are mine own	G
And to no man's humour tied	H
You oft flatter sooth and feign	I
I such baseness do disdain	I
And to none be slave I would	J
Though my fetters might be gold	K
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By great titles some believe	L
Highest honours are attained	M
And yet kings have power to give	N
To their fools what these have gained	M
Where they favour there they may	O
All their names of honour lay	O
But I look not raised to be	E
'Till mine own wing carry me	E
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Seek to raise your titles higher	P
They are toys not worth my sorrow	Q
Those that we to day admire	R
Prove the age's scorn to morrow	Q
Take your honours let me find	S
Virtue in a free born mind	S
This the greatest kings that be	E
Cannot give nor take from me	E
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Though I vainly do not vaunt	S
Large demesnes to feed my pleasure	P
I have favours where you want	S
That would buy respect with treasure	P
You have lands lie here and there	T
But my wealth is everywhere	T
And this addeth to my store	U
Fortune cannot make me poor	V
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Say you purchase with your pelf	N
Some respect where you importune	I
Those may love me for myself	N
That regard you for your fortune	I
Rich or born of high degree	E
Fools as well as you may be	E
But that peace in which I live	N
No descent nor wealth can give	N
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If you boast that you may gain	I
The respect of high born beauties	W
Know I never wooed in vain	I
Nor preferr d scorn d duties	W
She I love hath all delight	S
Rosy red with lily white	S
And whoe'er your mistress be	E
Flesh and blood as good as she	E
	-
Note of me was never took	X
For my woman like perfections	W
But so like a man I look	X
It hath gained me best affections	W
For my love as many showers	W
Have been wept as have for yours	W
And yet none doth me condemn	I
For abuse or scorning them	I
	-
Though of dainties you have store	U
To delight a choicer palate	S
Yet your taste is pleased no more	U
Than is mine in one poor sallet	S
You to please your senses feed	S
But I eat good blood to breed	S
And am most delighted then	I
When I spend it like a man	I
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Though you lord it over me	E
You in vain thereof have braved	S
For those lusts my servants be	E
Whereunto your minds are slaved	S
To yourselves you wise appear	Y
But alas deceived you are	Z
You do foolish me esteem	A2
And are that which I do seem	A2
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When your faults I open lay	O
You are moved and mad with vexing	B2
But you ne'er could do or say	O
Aught to drive me to perplexing	B2
Therefore my despis d power	P
Greater is by far than your	U
And whate'er you think of me	E
In your minds you poorer be	E
	-
You are pleas d more or less	W
As men well or ill report you	C2
And show discontentedness	W
When the times forbear to court you	C2
That in which my pleasures be	E
No man can divide from me	E
And my care it adds not to	C2
Whatso others say or do	C2
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Be not proud because you view	C2
You by thousands are attended	S
For alas it is not you	C2
But your fortune that's befriended	S
Where I show of love have got	S
Such a danger fear I not	S
Since they nought can seek of me	E
But for love beloved to be	E
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When your hearts have everything	B2
You are pleasantly disposed	S
But I can both laugh and sing	B2
Though my foes have me enclosed	S
Yea when dangers me do hem	I
I delight in scorning them	I
More than you in your renown	I
Or a king can in his crown	I
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You do bravely domineer	Y
Whilst the sun upon you shineth	C
Yet if any storm appear	Y
Basely then your mind declineth	C
But or shine or rain or blow	Q
I my resolutions know	Q
Living dying thrall or free	E
At one height my mind shall be	E
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When in thraldom I have lain	I
Me not worth your thought you prized	S
But your malice was in vain	I
For your favours I despised	S
And howe'er you value me	E
I with praise shall thought on be	E
When the world esteems you not	S
And your names shall be forgot	S
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In these thoughts my riches are	Z
Now though poor or mean you deem me	E
I am pleased and do not care	T
How the times or you esteem me	E
For those toys that make you gay	O
Are but play games for a day	O
And when nature craves her due	C2
I as brave shall be as you	C2

George Wither

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