William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Phylliss ResolutionWilliam Walsh (16631708)
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They hope no more to gain;
But you not only that desire,
But ask the power to reign.
Then you will soon decline;
Your freedom, when you please, pray take,
But trespass not on mine.
I ne’er will grant the thing,
That he, who once has been my slave,
Should ever be my king.