Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ^ ^A^ L^*> Near a shady grove, and a murmuring the ocean at distance, whereon I may look,With a spacious plain, without hedge or stile,And an easy pad-nag to ride out a mile ;May I govern, &c. W^ith Horace and Petrarch, and two or three moreOf the best wits that reigned in the ages before ;With roast mutton, rather than venison or clean tho coarse hnen at every meal;May I govern, &c. With a pudding on Sundays, with stout humming liquor,

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Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ^ ^A^ L^*> Near a shady grove, and a murmuring the ocean at distance, whereon I may look,With a spacious plain, without hedge or stile,And an easy pad-nag to ride out a mile ;May I govern, &c. W^ith Horace and Petrarch, and two or three moreOf the best wits that reigned in the ages before ;With roast mutton, rather than venison or clean tho coarse hnen at every meal;May I govern, &c. With a pudding on Sundays, with stout humming liquor,And remnants of Latin to welcome the Vicar ;With Monte-Fiascone, or Burgundy drink the kings health as oft as I dine ;May I govern, &c. May my wine be vermilion, may my malt-drink be neither extreme, or too mild or too stale :In lieu of desserts, unwholesome and dear,Let Lodi or Parmesan bring up the I govern, &c. Nor Tory or Whig, observator or I be, nor against the laws torrent a I mind what I speak, what I write, and hear read,And with matters of State neer troubl

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