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william byrd - my mind to me a kingdom is lyrics

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my minde to me a kingdome is
such perfect joy therin i find
that it excells all other blisse
which god or nature hath assign’d
though much i want, that most would have
yet still my mind forbids to crave

no princely port nor welthie store
no force to winne a victorie
no wyly wit to salve a sore
no shape to winne a loving eye:
to none of these i yeld as thrall
for why my minde despise them all

i see that plentie surfeits oft
and hastie clymbers soonest fall:
i see that such as are a loft
mishap doth thrеaten most of all:
these gеt with toyle and keepe with feare
such cares my minde can never beare

i presse to beare no haughtie sway
i wish no more then may suffice:
i doe no more than well i may
look what i want my minde supplies
loe thus i triumph like a king
my minde content with any thing
i laugh not at anothers losse
nor grudge not at anothers gaine:
no worldly waves my minde can tosse
i brooke that is anothers bane:
i feare no foe nor fawne on friend
i loth not lyfe nor dread mine end

my wealth is health and perfect ease
and conscience cleere my chiefe defence
i never seeke by brybes to please
nor by desert to give offence:
thus doe i live, thus will i dye
would all did so as well as i

- william byrd lyrics

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