KATHERINE PHILIPS: A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE POETRY by ...

La Grandeur d' esprit.
A chosen priuacie, a cheape content
And all the peace a friendship euer lent,
A rock which ciuill nature made a seat
A willow that repelIs the middayes heat
The beauteous quiet of a summers day 5
A brooke which sob'd aloud and ran away,
Invitted ny repose and then conspir'd
To entertaine my fancy thus retired.
As Lucians ferry-man aloft did view
The angry world and then 1aught at it too 10
So all its sullen follyes seeme to me
But as a too well acted tragedye.
One dangerous ambition doth befoole
Another Envy to see that man rule.
One makes his loue the parent of his rage 15
For priuate friendship publiquely to' ingage.
And some for conscience some for honour dye.
And some are meanely killd, they know not why.
More different then mens faces are their ends
8 retired.] '*',
12 tragedye.] '*',
14 rule.] ""^
18 why.] "',
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