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Wile some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.
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And should you visit now the seats of bliss,
You need not wear another form but this.
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Lord of myself, accountable to none.
But to my conscience, and my God alone.
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Curse on the man who business first designed,
And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!
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Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate,
By every breach in that fair lodging made,
Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.
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I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
To each affronting sot I meet, the word
Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
And pointed satire runs him through and through.
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Ah, dearer than my soul…
Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
August 9, 1653
Died:
December 9, 1683
(aged 30)
Bio:
John Oldham was an English satirical poet and translator.
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