<p>Marke well this Caged-fowle ; and, thereby, see,<lb/> What, thy estate, may, peradventure, be.<lb/> She, wants her freedome ; so, perhaps, dost thou,<lb/> Some freedomes lacke, which, are desired, now;<lb/> And, though, thy Body be not so confin'd;<lb/> Art straitned, from some liberty of Minde.<lb/> The Bird in thrall, the more contented lyes,<lb/> Because, the Hawke, so neere her, she espyes;<lb/> And, though, the Cage were open, more would feare,<lb/> To venture out, then to continue there:<lb/> So, if thou couldst perceive, what Birds of prey,<lb/> Are hov'ring round about thee, every day,<lb/> To seize thy Soule (when she abroad shall goe,<lb/> To take the Freedome, she desireth so)<lb/> Thou, farre more fearefull, wouldst of them, become,<lb/> Then thou art, now, of what thou flyest from.<lb/> Not Precepts, but Experience, thus hath taught me;<lb/> Which, to such resolutions, now have brought me,<lb/> That, whatsoever mischiefes others doe me,<lb/> I make them yield some true Contentments to me;<lb/> And, seldome struggle from them, till I see,<lb/> That, smother-fortunes will securer be.<lb/> What spight soere my Foes, to me, can doe,<lb/> I laugh thereat, within an houre or two:<lb/> For, though the World, and I, at first, believe,<lb/> My Suffrings, give me cause enough to grieve;<lb/> Yet, afterward, I finde (the more to glad me)<lb/> That, better Fortunes, might farre worse have made me.<lb/> By some young Devills, though, I scratched am,<lb/> Yet, I am hopefull, I shall scape their Dam. </p>

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A dove in cage fears the attack of a vulture

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<p>My Fortune, I had rather beare;<lb/> Then come, where greater perills are.</p>

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