"The stars, who, by I know not what strange right, / Preside o'er mortals in their own despite, / Who, without reason, govern those who most / (How truly, judge from thence!) of reason boast, / And, by some mighty magic yet unknown, / Our actions guide, yet cannot guide their own."
Gotham
8 entries in ESTC (1764, 1765).<br>
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Issued in 3 "Books" in 1764, each with a separate half-title; collected in Churchill's <u>Poems</u> (1765).<br>
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Text from <u>Poems of Charles Churchill</u>, ed. James Laver. 2 vols. (London: The King's Printers, 1933).