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Matthew Prior, poet and diplomat, was born near Wimborne Minster, Dorset. His family moved to London while he was still a child. He was educated at Westminister School, but was taken out when his father died and apprenticed to his uncle, a tavern-keeper. In 1680 he went to Cambridge on a scholarship .. .. more >>

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1		A Better Answer
2		A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, when a Child
3		A Reasonable Affliction
4		A Simile
6		An Epitaph
7		An Ode
8		Cupid Mistaken
9		For my own Monument
11		Jinny the Just
12		On My Birthday, July 21
13		Phyllis's Age
14		Song
15		The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus
16		The Merchant, To Secure His Treasure
17		The Question to Lisetta
18		To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, 1704. The Author then Forty
19		To a Child of Quality, Five Years Old, the Author Suppos'd Forty
20		To a Lady

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"What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows
The difference there is betwixt Nature and Art:
I court others in verse, but I love thee in prose;
And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart."
Matthew Prior (1664-1721), British poet. Answer to Cloe Jealous (l. 13-16). . . New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.

"A diff'rent cause, says Parson Sly,
The same effect may give:
Poor Lubin fears, that he shall die;
His wife, that he may live."
Matthew Prior (1664-1721), British poet. A Reasonable Affliction (l. 5-8). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.

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