<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457264" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written At Paris, 1700. In The Beginning Of Robe's Geography</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all that William rules, or robe<br>Describes, great Rhea, of thy globe,<br>When or on posthorse or in chaise,<br>With much expense and little ease,<br>My destin'd miles I shall have gone,<br>By Thames, or Maese, by Po, or Rhone,<br>And found no foot of earth my own;<br>Great Mother, let me once be able<br>To have a garden, house, and stable,<br>That I may read, and ride, and plant,<br>Superior to desire or want;<br>And as health fails, and years increase,<br>Sit down and think, and die in peace.<br>Oblige thy favourite undertakers<br>To throw me in but twenty acres;<br>This number sure they may allow,<br>For pasture ten, and ten for plough;<br>'Tis all that I would wish or hope, <br>For me, and John, and Nell, and Crop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then as thou wilt dispose the rest<br>(And let not Fortune spoil the jest)<br>To those who at the market-rate<br>Can barter honour for estate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now if thou grant'st me my request,<br>To make thy vot'ry truly bless'd,<br>Let curs'd revenge and saucy pride<br>To some bleak rock far off be tied,<br>Nor e'er approach my rural seat,<br>To tempt me to be base and great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, Goddess, this kind office done,<br>Charge Venus to command her son<br>(Wherever else she lets him rove)<br>To shun my house, and field, and grove:<br>Peace cannot dwell with Hate or Love.<br>Hear, gracious Rhea, what I say,<br>And thy petitioner shall pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457264" data-title="Written At Paris, 1700. In The Beginning Of Robe's Geography de Matthew Prior" data-description="Of all that William rules, or robe Describes, great Rhea, of thy globe, When or on posthorse or in chaise, With much expense and little ease, My destin'd miles I shall have gone, By Thames, or Maese, by Po, or Rhone, And found no foot of earth my ..."></div> </div> </div>

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