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Edward Dyer
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“My Minde to Me a Kindome Is; Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind: Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.”
Edward Dyer (1543–1607) first seen 1588 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MS. Rawl 85 (1588), p. 17. A very similar but anonymous copy is in the British Museum. Additional MS. 15225, p. 85. And there is an imitation in J. Sylvester’s Works, p. 651, Hannah, Courtly Poets. Compare:
“Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more: They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I have; they pine, I live.”
Edward Dyer (1543–1607) first seen 1588 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MS. Rawl 85 (1588), p. 17.
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer