<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457267" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Written In The Beginning Of Mezeray's History Of France</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whate'er thy countrymen have done<br>By law and wit, by sword and gun,<br>In thee is faithfully recited,<br>And all the living world that view<br>Thy work, give thee the praises due<br>At once instructed and delighted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet for the fame of all these deeds<br>What beggar in the invalids,<br>With lameness broke, with blindness smitten,<br>Wish'd ever decently to die,<br>To have been either Mezeray,<br>Or any Monarch he has written?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's strange, dear Author, yet it true is,<br>That down from Pharamond to Louis<br>All covet life, yet call it pain,<br>And feel the ill, yet shun the cure:<br>Can sense this paradox endure?<br>Resolve me, Cambray, or Fontaine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man in graver tragic known<br>(Though his best part long since was done)<br>Still on the stage desires to tarry,<br>And he who play'd the Harlequin,<br>After the jest still loads the scene,<br>Unwilling to retire though weary.</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=457267" data-title="Written In The Beginning Of Mezeray's History Of France de Matthew Prior" data-description="Whate'er thy countrymen have done By law and wit, by sword and gun, In thee is faithfully recited, And all the living world that view Thy work, give thee the praises due At once instructed and delighted. Yet for the fame of all these deeds What b..."></div> </div> </div>

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