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12 THE FIRST BOOKE
HOW A MAN SHOULD OPPOSE ADVERSITIE.
Gainst mifadventure being refolv'd to fight,
My mind lhall be the bow, whence I'l apace
Shoot back the arrows, Fortune out of fpight,
Aflaults me with ; and breake them in her face ;
For all her foverain'ties I abjure,
Her harmes I dread not, and defye her pow'r.
THE EXPRESSION OF A CONTENTED MIND IN POVERTIE.
That I'm not covetous, is all my land,
From whence my thoughts new treafours dayly bring ;
And the bell moveable, which I command
Is, I buy no unneceffary thing :
By thefe, I of true wealth poffefle fuch ftore,
That all the Kinsrs on earth can have no more.
NOT TIME, BUT OUR ACTIONS, ARE THE TRUE MEASURE
OF OUR LIFE.
That life is lhort, which meafur'd by the fpan
Of time hath been of vertuous actions fcant ;
And one day's longer in a learned man,
Then twenty lufters of an ignorant ;
For life is good, and 'tis the quality
Of goodneile, that extends its quantity.
INGRATITUDE IS SUCH A COMMON VICE, THAT EVEN THOSE
WHO EXCLAME MOST AGAINST IT, ARE NOT FREEST OF IT.
It would not be an univerfall cace,
Nor could each man have fo true caufe to fall
In rayling 'gainft ingratitude, unleile
There were fome reafon to complaine of all :
HOW A MAN SHOULD OPPOSE ADVERSITIE.
Gainst mifadventure being refolv'd to fight,
My mind lhall be the bow, whence I'l apace
Shoot back the arrows, Fortune out of fpight,
Aflaults me with ; and breake them in her face ;
For all her foverain'ties I abjure,
Her harmes I dread not, and defye her pow'r.
THE EXPRESSION OF A CONTENTED MIND IN POVERTIE.
That I'm not covetous, is all my land,
From whence my thoughts new treafours dayly bring ;
And the bell moveable, which I command
Is, I buy no unneceffary thing :
By thefe, I of true wealth poffefle fuch ftore,
That all the Kinsrs on earth can have no more.
NOT TIME, BUT OUR ACTIONS, ARE THE TRUE MEASURE
OF OUR LIFE.
That life is lhort, which meafur'd by the fpan
Of time hath been of vertuous actions fcant ;
And one day's longer in a learned man,
Then twenty lufters of an ignorant ;
For life is good, and 'tis the quality
Of goodneile, that extends its quantity.
INGRATITUDE IS SUCH A COMMON VICE, THAT EVEN THOSE
WHO EXCLAME MOST AGAINST IT, ARE NOT FREEST OF IT.
It would not be an univerfall cace,
Nor could each man have fo true caufe to fall
In rayling 'gainft ingratitude, unleile
There were fome reafon to complaine of all :
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