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My mind to me a kingdom 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.

My mind to me a kingdom 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.

Approximate author period: c. 1573 AD · renaissance

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Edward Dyer
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Approximate author period: c. 1573 AD · renaissance
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

MS. Rawl. 85, p. 17.

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