<p>IN christall towers, and turrets richlie sette<lb/> With glittering gemmes, that shine against the sonne:<lb/> In regall roomes of Iasper, and of Iette,<lb/> Contente of minde, not alwaies likes to wonne:<lb/> But oftentimes, it pleaseth her to staye<lb/> In simple cotes, clos'de in with walles of claye.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_21301"/><persName>DIOGENES</persName>, within a tonne did dwell,<lb/> No choice of place, nor store of pelfe he had;<lb/> And all his goodes; coulde <persName type="mythological">BIAS</persName> beare right well,<lb/> And <persName>CODRVS</persName> had small cates, his harte to gladde:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_21302"/>His meate was rootes: his table, was a stoole,<lb/> Yet these for witte, did set the worlde to scoole?<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_21303"/>Who couettes still, or hee that liues in feare,<lb/> As much delighte is wealthe vnto his minde,<lb/> As musicke is to him, that can not heare,<lb/> Or pleasante showes, and pictures, to the blinde:<lb/> Then sweete content, ofte likes the meane estate,<lb/> Which is exempte, and free, from feare, and hate.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_21304"/>What man is ritche? not he that doth abounde.<lb/> What man is pore? not hee that hath no store.<lb/> But he is ritche, that makes content his grounde.<lb/> And he is pore, that couettes more and more.<lb/> Which proues: the man was ritcher in the tonne,<lb/> Then was the Kinge, that manie landes had wonne.<lb/> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac199"/> <term id="embstma_1667_21305"/>If then, content the chiefest riches bee,<lb/> And greedie gripes, that doe abounde be pore,<lb/> Since that, inoughe allotted is to thee,<lb/> Embrace content, then <persName>CAESAR</persName> hath no more.<lb/> Giue <persName type="mythological">MIDAS</persName>, goulde: and let him pine with shame.<lb/> Vse you, your goodes, to liue, and die, with fame.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21301" lang="la"><name type="author">Erasm.</name> Chiliad. 61.<lb/> Centuria 8. de <persName>Dio-<lb/> gene</persName>, &amp; quid per<lb/> vitam doliatem:<lb/> significatur.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21302" lang="la"><name type="author">Iuuenalis</name>:<lb/> Tota domus <rs>Codrirheda</rs><lb/> componitur vna.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21303" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> lib. 1. epist. 2.<lb/> Qui cupit, aut metuit,<lb/> iuuat illum, sic domus,<lb/> aut res;<lb/> Vt lippum pictae tabulae,<lb/> formenta podagram;<lb/> Auriculus citharae col-<lb/> lecta sorde dolenteis.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21304" lang="la">Qui diues? qui nil<lb/> cupiat. quis pauper?<lb/> auarus.<lb/> Blantis dictum per<lb/> <name type="author">Ausonium</name>.</gloss> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac199"/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21305" lang="la"><name type="author">Claud.</name> 1. Ruf.<lb/> -- Contentus honesto<lb/> <persName>Fabritius</persName> paruo sperne-<lb/> bat munera regum:<lb/> Sudabat que graui con-<lb/> sul <persName>Serranus</persName> aratro:<lb/> Et casa pugnaces <persName>Curios</persName><lb/> angusta tenebat.</gloss> </p>

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Diogenes in his cask, is visited by Alexander the Great; Codrus seated at a small table, roots on the ground

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