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AND Genre: "Poetry"

AND Religion of Author: "Anglican"

AND Literary Period: "Eighteenth Century"

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Date: w. before 1717? (first published 1989)

"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."