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Instead of Novels, Histories peruse,
And for their Guides the wiser Ancients chuse,Come, seek my green retreats, and rather chuse
To cool thy tresses in my chrystal dews,When sicke with Poetrie,'and possest with muse
Thou wast, and mad, I hop'd; but men which chusereason & passion draw ye diffrent views
& we're all blessd according as we chuseThe Sun, th'o'er-shadowing Clouds, the moistning Dews
He with such Contrariety does chuse;Prepare the hallow'd strain, My Muse,
Thy softest sounds and sweetest numbrs chuse;Say; does your humble admiration chuse
The gentle prattle of her Comic Muse,Yet I had rather if I were to chuse,
Thy service in some graver subject use,"And whether he walk in drink or muse,
Or for his love be bound,
We have no wit to mark and chuse,None e'er did modern Midas chuse
Subject or patron of his muse,Then call me banish'd, I will ne'er refuse
A name expressive of the lot I chuse.Of ash-heaps, in the which ye use
Husbands and wives by streaks to chuse;That for his lines none should a patron chuse
By wealth and poverty, by less or more,
But who the same is able to peruse:No fault in women, to refuse
The offer which they most would chuse.The bard who humbly deigns to chuse
Me for the subject of his Muse!And here a fault, and there another views,
And lives unfix'd for want to heart to chuse:That for his lines none should a patro[n] chuse
By wealth or pouerty, by lesse or more,
But who the same is able to peruse;To follow through the Groves a wand'ring Muse
And fain'd Idea's for my pleasures chuseAnd sits in measures, such as Virgil's Muse,
To place thee near him, might be fond to chuse.From such a Life as this, I chuse
To snatch some Moments for the Muse;