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EPIGRAMS.
THE SECOND BOOKE.
NO CROSSE ADVENTURE SHOULD HINDER US FROM BEING GOOD,
THOUGH WE BE FRUSTRATE OF THE REWARD THEREOF.
By any meanes, with all your might endeavour
For honefty, whats'ever be th'event :
Although unifier fortune fliould diflever
Vertue from honour, be not difcontent ;
For if you be deprived of your due,
The fault is in the time, and not in you.
THOSE THAT HAVE GREATEST ESTATES ARE NOT ALWAYES
THE WEALTHIEST MEN.
They're richer, who diminilli their defires,
Though their poffeffions be not amplified,
Then Monarchs, who in owning large Empires,
Have minds, that never will be fatisfied ;
For he is poore, that wants what he would have,
And rich, who having nought, doth nothing crave.