<p>The Gryphon, is the figure of a creature,<lb/> Not found within the Catalogues of Nature :<lb/> But, by those Wits created, who, to shew<lb/> Internall things, externall Figures drew:<lb/> The Shape, in which this Fiction they exprest,<lb/> Was borrow'd from a Fowle, and, from a Beast ;<lb/> Importing (when their parts were thus combin'd)<lb/> The Vertues, both of Body, and of minde :<lb/> And, Men are sayd on Gryphons backes to ride,<lb/> When those mixt Vertues, them have dignify'd.<lb/> The Stone (this Brute supporting) may expresse<lb/> The firme abiding, and the solidnesse<lb/> Of all true Vertues. That, long-winged Ball,<lb/> Which doth appeare fast-linked therewithall,<lb/> The gifts of changing Fortune, doe implye:<lb/> And, all those things together, signifie,<lb/> That, when by such-like Vertues Men are guided,<lb/> Good Fortune cannot be from them divided.<lb/> If this be true (as true I this believe)<lb/> Why should wee murmure, why repine, or grieve,<lb/> As if our Studies, or our honest paines,<lb/> Deprived were of some deserved gaines?<lb/> Why should we thinke the world hath done us wrong,<lb/> Because wee are not register'd among<lb/> Those thriving men, who purse up evr'y day,<lb/> For twelve houres labour more then twelve months pay?<lb/> If wee our paines rewarded cannot see,<lb/> Wee count our Merits greater then they be.<lb/> But if we bide content, our worth is more,<lb/> And rich we are, though others think us poore.<lb/> </p>

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<p>Good Fortune will with him abide,<lb/> That hath true Vertue, for his guide.</p>

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