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Occasional verse, English.
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"Poems written on several occasions by N. Tate." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63114.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2024.
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The Request.
SO may you Spring, and so Heav'ns choicest Dew,In Nightly-Show'rs distill, fair Plants, on you;As You on Me your rankest Venom shed,Whil'st at Your Feet I make my grassie Bed.And Thou, O Goddess, (whose obliging WombAffords the Living Food, the Dead a Tomb)Permit me, e'er I die, to dig my Grave;'Tis all my starv'd Ambition has to crave.
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I rob Thee not; for, tho' my delving SpadeDislodge thy Mould, there's yet no Trespass made:For I the petty Damage shall repay,Filling the vacant Ground with my own Clay.
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