A Grateful Mind/ By Owing Owes Not,

The Spirits Perverse With Easy Intercourse Pass To And Fro, To Tempt Or Punish Mortals.

From Haunted Spring And Dale Edg'd With Poplar Pale The Parting Genius Is With Sighing Sent.

Hide Me From Day's Garish Eye, While The Bee With Honied Thigh, That At Her Flowery Work Doth Sing, And The Waters Murmuring With Such Consort As They Keep, Entice The Dewy-feathered Sleep.

No Date Prefixed Directs Me In The Starry Rubric Set.

But All Was False And Hollow; Though His Tongue Dropp'd Manna, And Could Make The Worse Appear The Better Reason, 4 To Perplex And Dash Maturest Counsels.