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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61904#0085
CHEPSTOW CASTLE.
73
M y life was fpent with ferving you, and you,
A nd death’s my pay (it feems,) and welcome too :
R evenge deftroying but itfelf, while I
T o birds of prey leave my old cage and fly.
E xamples preach to the eye ; care then — mine fays-
N ot how you end, but how you fpend your days.
Having taken a view over the walls of the cattle court, and
at the Wye rufhing far below at the bafe of the cliffs on which
the cattle ftands, we fet out for Tintern.
73
M y life was fpent with ferving you, and you,
A nd death’s my pay (it feems,) and welcome too :
R evenge deftroying but itfelf, while I
T o birds of prey leave my old cage and fly.
E xamples preach to the eye ; care then — mine fays-
N ot how you end, but how you fpend your days.
Having taken a view over the walls of the cattle court, and
at the Wye rufhing far below at the bafe of the cliffs on which
the cattle ftands, we fet out for Tintern.