"But he who servily can wish or grieve / For that which is not in his powr to give / Casts off the firmness wch shoud make him great / the strongest shield we can oppose to fate / letts inclinations grow & thus he weaves / Those very bonds which keep us passions slaves."
Metr: Boetius 1s 1 Quisquis comp [from "Satires" Notebook]
Thomas Parnell, "Metr: Boetius 1s 1 Quisquis comp," from <u>Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell</u>, eds. Claude Julien Rawson and F. P. Lock (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989), 390.