The Round. 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. 104-105. [15],133p.

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The Round . HOw Vain a Thing is Man whom Toyes Delight , And shdadows Fright ! Variety of Impertinence Might give our Dotage some Pretence ; But to a Circle bound , We Toil in a dull Round : We sitt , move , Eat and Drink , We Dress , Undress , Discourse and Think By the same Passions hurri'd on , Imposing or Impos'd upon : We pass the time in Sport or Toil , We Plow the Seas or Safer Soil : Thus all that we Project and Do , We did it many a year agoe . We Travel still a beaten way , And yet how eager rise we to pursue Th'affairs of each returning day , As if its Entertainments were Surprizing All and New .