The Ingrates. Nahum Tate Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Tate, Nahum, c. 1652-1715. Poems by N. Tate. London Printed by T.M. for Benj. Tooke ... 1677 pp. 79-80. [15],133p.

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The Ingrates . DUll Mortals with the same prepost'rous breath We bless Love's Darts , and Curse the shafts of Death . The Author of our Ills , a God we stile ; But the Redresser of those wrongs Revile . Yet gentle Death ( tho rudely treated ) still Persists in generous Charity to Kill And Cure th'Ingrateful ev'n against their Will ! Ah should he once in just Resentment give Our Wishes , and permit us ever Live , What shou'd we do when Soul and Body jar And Loath each other like an Ill-wed Pair ? Can envious Fiends a Penalty invent That shall than Loath'd Embraces more Torment ? But friendly Death absolves us from this Curse , And when the Parties clash , makes a Divorce .