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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080712.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>An Antidote of Rare Phy&s;ick.</HEAD>
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<L>No Rarer thing that you can find,</L>
<L>To Cure a Di&s;contented mind;</L>
<L>A contented mind it is mo&s;t rare,</L>
<L>If you &s;erve the Lord and &s;tand in fear:</L>
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<LG>
<L>And let no want nor Poverty,</L>
<L>Di&s;quiet your mind, I tell to ye;</L>
<L>For God hath all things &s;till in &s;tore,</L>
<L>If you have content you need no more</L>
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<OPENER>The Tune is, No love like a contented mind: or, Phancies Phenix.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>INdeed this world is &s;o unju&s;t,</L>
<L>Men cannot one another tru&s;t;</L>
<L>Some are &s;o troubled in their mind,</L>
<L>One &s;carcely now a friend can find:</L>
<L>There is &s;uch wavering every way,</L>
<L>Makes many a man &s;tand at a &s;tay:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind it is mo&s;t rare,</HI></L>
<L><HI>If we &s;erve the Lord and &s;tand in fear.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If a man be poor and have but &s;mall,</L>
<L>If he be content it's the be&s;t of all;</L>
<L>There's &s;ome has Thou&s;ands at command,</L>
<L>That's not content I under&s;tand;</L>
<L>They pinch and &s;pare to make it more,</L>
<L>And grind the faces of the poor:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If &s;ickne&s;s comes count that no lo&s;s,</L>
<L>But be content then with thy Cro&s;s:</L>
<L>If it be Gods will it mu&s;t be &s;o,</L>
<L>It's a Ble&s;&s;ing, pray you &s;ay not no:</L>
<L>And remember <HI>Iob</HI> in all his ways,</L>
<L>He evermore gave God the Prai&s;e:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If you be ca&s;t in Pri&s;on never fear,</L>
<L>Let not your heart and mind di&s;pair;</L>
<L>But be content and hope the be&s;t,</L>
<L>When God is pleas'd you &s;hall be releas'd:</L>
<L>That man that &s;erves the God of might,</L>
<L>If man do him wrong, God will do him right</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind it is mo&s;t rare,</HI></L>
<L><HI>If we &s;erve the Lord and &s;tand in fear.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>If a man have a charge of Children &s;mall,</L>
<L>And has but little to maintain them withal,</L>
<L>Let his prayers be &s;till unto the Lord,</L>
<L>Then relief for them he will afford;</L>
<L>And never murmer at your want,</L>
<L>Although &s;ometimis that things be &s;cant,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Content it is a plea&s;ant thing therefore,</L>
<L>And e&s;pecially for the Poor;</L>
<L>If a man be brought into di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>It will relieve him in his heavine&s;s;</L>
<L>And make him under&s;tand and &s;ee,</L>
<L>What our good God can do for thee and me:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What ever Troubles comes or goes,</L>
<L>Let's &s;erve the Lord, and give him prai&s;e;</L>
<L>And keep our hearts both clear and &s;ound,</L>
<L>That no evil may our con&s;cience wound:</L>
<L>And love all men both Rich and Poor,</L>
<L>And be content for evermore:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HI></L>
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</LG>
<LG>
<L>If Maids and Young-men be tros'd in love,</L>
<L>And neither party be unkind,</L>
<L>Let them put their tru&s;t in God above,</L>
<L>And he will ea&s;e their troubled mind:</L>
<L>And never pine at it I do &s;ay,</L>
<L>Many has brought them&s;elves unto decay:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind, &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Contents the be&s;t thing we can find,</L>
<L>If any trouble do vex our mind;</L>
<L>It will pre&s;erve us from all evil,</L>
<L>And expell the Poy&s;on of the Devil:</L>
<L>For if our hearts be whole and &s;ound,</L>
<L>No evil thing can there abound:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>That man that lives without content,</L>
<L>And hath his heart now on Riches bent,</L>
<L>Ne'r has enough, he'd &s;till have more,</L>
<L>His wicked mind runs on his &s;tore:</L>
<L>But the poor man that enjoys content,</L>
<L>Is in a better way when life is &s;pent:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>A contented mind, &amp;c.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Contents will cure a wounded heart,</L>
<L>Content will never let it &s;mart;</L>
<L>Content it is a precious &s;tore,</L>
<L>And he that hath it needs no more:</L>
<L>It's a Remedy for Rich and Poor,</L>
<L>And a Pla&s;ter for every wounded Sore:</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>Content it is &s;o rare a thing,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Great Comfort to you it will bring.</HI></L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>I. Deacon,</HI> at the <HI>Angel</HI> in <HI>Guilt&s;pur-&s;treet.</HI></P>
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