[Page 180]

TO David Polhill Esq

An Epistle.

I.
1 LET useless Souls to Woods retreat,
2 POLHILL should leave a Country Seat
3 When Vertue bids him dare be Great.
II.
4 Nor Kent, nor Sussex should have Charms
5 While Liberty with Loud Alarms
6 Calls you to Counsels and to Arms.
III.
7 Lewis by his own Slaves Ador'd
8 Bids you receive a Base-born Lord:
9 Awake your Cares! Awake your Sword!
[Page 181]
IV.
10 Young Tory Votes to Rule the People
11 By High-Church; Can you Swear and Tipple,
12 And fetch Commissions from the Steeple?
V.
13 Thy Grandsire-shades with Jealous Eye
14 Frown down to see their Offspring lie
15 Careless, and let their Country die.
VI.
16 If Trevia fear to let you stand
17 Against the Gaul with Spear in Hand,
18 At least Petition for the Land.

Text

  • TEI/XML [chunk] (XML - 40K / ZIP - 5.0K) / ECPA schema (RNC - 357K / ZIP - 73K)
  • Plain text [excluding paratexts] (TXT - 735 / ZIP - 636 )

Facsimile (Source Edition)

(Page images digitized from a copy in the Princeton Theological Seminary Library.)

Images

PDF

All Images (PDF - 735K)

About this text

Title (in Source Edition): TO David Polhill Esq
Author: Isaac Watts
Themes:
Genres: epistle

Text view / Document view

Source edition

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Horæ lyricæ: Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind. In two books. ... By I. Watts. London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence at the Sign of the Angel in the Poultrey. MDCCVI., 1706, pp. 180-181. [20],267,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T82397; OTA K067329.000) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Princeton Theological Seminary Library.)

Editorial principles

The text has been typographically modernized, but without any silent modernization of spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. The source of the text is given and all editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. Based on the electronic text originally produced by the TCP project, this ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.

Other works by Isaac Watts