"Never, never would she [the mind] buy / Indian dust, or Tyrian dye, / Never trade abroad for more, / If she saw her native store, / If her inward worth were known / She might ever live alone."
True Riches [from Horae Lyricae, 2nd ed.]
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See Isaac Watts, <u>Hor&aelig; Lyric&aelig;. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind. In Three Books</u>, 2nd ed. (London: Printed by J. Humfreys, for N. Cliff, 1709). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW110272883&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Searching <u>The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.</u>, 6 vols. (London: Printed by and for John Barfield, 1810).