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Wild as they are, accept them, so we're wee; To make them civill will our honour be; And if good worcks be the effects of myndes, Which like good angells be, let our designes, As we are Angli, make us Angells too; No better worck can state or church-man do. The Campion connection interests me personally because Campion was the protagonist of unrhymed lyrical verse my special metrical hobby.
I have met with the lines in two or three versions, of which the following, copied in the churchyard at Aberystwith, appears to be the most complete: "My sledge and hammer lie reclined; My bellows too have lost their wind; My fire extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone; My nails are drove, my worck is done."
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