"All this says Richard is but Nonsense / For whats the Will without the Conscience / That mighty Pow'r by whom the thought / Is from Kings Bench to Chanc'ry brought. / What Seat for Her have You assign'd / When She may view and sway the mind?"
[Fragments for Alma, from the Longleat MSS]
Text from Matthew Prior, <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2 vols, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), ii, pp. 969-70.<br>
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See also "Fragments for Alma" in <u>Dialogues of the Dead and Other Works in Prose and Verse</u>, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1907), 325. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=J6PWYVLSi6cC">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;