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16 THE FIRST BOOKE
Yet with a mind, undanted all the while,
I will refill; her blows, till they be broke
In the rebounding, and without commotion,
Till all her rage be fpent, fuftaine the fight :
So that flie fhall not b' able to fubdue
One thought of mine, with all that flie can doe ;
For when fli' hath try'd her worit, I will not yeeld,
Nor let her thinke, that flie hath gain'd the field.
THAT WISE MEN, TO SPEAK PROPERLY, ARE THE MOST
POWEUFULL MEN IN THE WORLD.
The greateft power is to wife men due :
The pow'r of all men elfe to theirs being nought ;
For wife men onely, what they will, can doe ;
Becaufe they will not doe, but what they ought :
Such being their cariage, that their reafon Mill
Direcls their power, and informes their will.
TO A RICH MAN BECOME POOR.
Your poverty fliould be the more efteemed,
That by the meanes thereof you are exeemed
From ftubborne fervants, lying fycophants,
And faigned friends : in lieu whereof, it grants
Thefe three of a more vertuous company,
Eafe, humble cariage, and fobriety.
THAT IF WE STROVE NOT MORE FOR SUPERFLUITIES, THEN FOR
WHAT IS NEEDFUL, WE WOULD NOT BE SO MUCH
TROUBLED, AS WE ARE.
If by the neceflary ufe of things,
The ornaments wee meafure of our honour,
And not by that, which fancy doth liiggefl us ;
Wee will not need thofe wares, the marchant brings
From forraine countries ; and withall exoner
Our minds of what misrlit otherwife molelt us.