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The Resolve.

1.
1 FOR what the World admires I'll wish no more,
2 Nor court that airy nothing of a Name:
3 Such flitting Shadows let the Proud adore,
4 Let them be Suppliants for an empty Fame.
2.
5 If Reason rules within, and keeps the Throne,
6 While the inferior Faculties obey,
7 And all her Laws without Reluctance own,
8 Accounting none more fit, more just than they.
3.
9 If Virtue my free Soul unsully'd keeps,
10 Exempting it from Passion and from Stain:
11 If no black guilty Thoughts disturb my Sleeps,
12 And no past Crimes my vext Remembrance pain.
4.
13 If, tho' I Pleasure find in living here,
14 I yet can look on Death without Surprize:
15 If I've a Soul above the Reach of Fear,
16 And which will nothing mean or sordid prize.
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17 A Soul, which cannot be depress'd by Grief,
18 Nor too much rais'd by the sublimest Joy;
19 Which can, when troubled, give it self Relief,
20 And to Advantage all its Thoughts employ.
6.
21 Then am I happy in my humble State,
22 Altho' not crown'd with Glory nor with Bays:
23 A Mind, that triumphs over Vice and Fate,
24 Esteems it mean to court the World for Praise.

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Title (in Source Edition): The Resolve.
Author: Lady Mary Chudleigh
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Chudleigh, Mary Lee, 1656-1710. Poems on several occasions. Together with the Song of the three children paraphras'd. By the Lady Chudleigh. London: Printed by W.B. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703, pp. 104-105. [16],125,[17],73,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T97275) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [(OC) 280 j.452].)

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