<p>SPORT of thy mistress' fickle mind,<lb/> Hapless lover! turning ever<lb/> Like the wevell with the wind,<lb/> Hast not strength such bonds to sever?<lb/> Look around thee, senseless lover!-<lb/> Fair as she thou ll't many find;<lb/> Many who possess moreover,<lb/> Far more charms of heart and mind.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac030"/> Slave of her despot frown or smile; <lb/> Hast no other will to guide thee,<lb/> Than her changeful will, who while <lb/> Rulling thee, doth but desire thee?<lb/> He who thus subjects his reason<lb/> To a fickle woman's rule,<lb/> Merits just as mucht derision<lb/> As the witless straw-tied fool. </p> <p>QUAM miiserè servit cui mulier imperat, cui leges imponit, praescribit, jubet, vetat<lb/> quod videtur: qui nihil imperanti negare potest, nil recusare; poscit, dandum<lb/> est; ejicit, abeundum; vocat, veniendm; minatur, extimescendum! - CICERO.<lb/> IMPONIT leges vultibus illa thuis. - OVID.</p> <p>Quo nos Numen agit.<lb/> Whither God directs us.<lb/> HE is the wisest, who has school'd his mind<lb/> T'adopt the current of the ruling wind.<lb/> Blow whence it will, prepared for all event,<lb/> With fortune's dispensations e'er content,<lb/> Who with discernment both in time and place,<lb/> Bends his opinion with a cheerful grace;<lb/> To him unknown the troubles which impart<lb/> The constant fever of the stubborn heart,<lb/> That 'mid a world of change would stand aloof,<lb/> To stem the torrent with his vain reproof.<lb/> To change opinion and yet constant be,<lb/> Is possible alone to such as he<lb/> Whose strength of mind is in it pliancy.</p> <p>UT acerbitates multas ac molestias evitemus, consilia ad eventus ac tempora flectenda<lb/> sunt.- SENECA.<lb/> OPORTET enim tanquàm in talorum jactu, ad id quod ceciderit, res suas accommodare.<lb/> PLATO.<lb/> LEVE sit quod bene fertur onus.- OVID.<lb/> QUONIAM id sieri quod vis non potest, velis id quod possis. - TERENCE.<lb/> TEMPORI enim cedere, id est necessitati parere, semper sapientis habitum est. - CICERO.<lb/> DECET id pati aequo animo;<lb/> Si id facietis, levior labos erit. - PLAUTUS.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac031"/> <lb/> <p>THROW aside prejudice and thou art saved. Who prevents thee from doing so?_<lb/> MARCUS AURELIUS.<lb/> ALL things change- You yourself continually change, and destroy yourself in some<lb/> part. It is the same with the whole world.<lb/> WE should take counsel of reason upon that which befalls us, and correct by our <lb/> prudent conduct the injustice of fortune, as a gamester repairs a stroke of ill luch by <lb/> his skill. - PLATO.<lb/> A SURE means to become inaccessible to disappointment, is to become penetrated<lb/> with the inconstancy of fortune, and to be prepared for all her capriciousness. - PLUTARCH.<lb/> NECESSITATI ne quidem Dii resistunt. - ERASMUS.<lb/> Les hommes légers et flottans,<lb/> Perdent toûjours leur avantage:<lb/> Aussi n'appartient-t'il qu'au sage,<lb/> De scavoir bien prendre son temps. - GOMBERVILLE.<lb/> THE goal of yesterday will be the starting-point of to-morrow. - CARLYLE.<lb/> WHEN things will not suit our will, it is wise to suit our will to things.- Arabic Prov.<lb/> All our undertakings should be bent in accordance with the circumstances of the moment.</p> <p>In Domino quies.<lb/> Rest is in God.<lb/> FIX'D to no point, the wevell sways about,<lb/> Obedient to th'uncertain wav'ring blast;<lb/> But when the wind has ceas'd to blow in doubt,<lb/> The wevell to one point is fix'd at last.<lb/> Vain heart! go search the world's remotest nook,<lb/> Pry into all, examine every book,<lb/> With equal thirst and hunger still oppress'd,<lb/> In God, the Lord, thou ll't find alone true rest.</p> <p>COME unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest-<lb/> Matthew xi. 28.<lb/> Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire<lb/> beside thee. - Psalm lxxiii. 25.<lb/> Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and<lb/> ye shall find rest unto your souls; for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.-<lb/> Matthew xi. 29,30.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac032"/> <p>A THOUSAND evils this my life doth spend,<lb/> At length fierce Boreas thereto puts an end:<lb/> My light, my heat, my flame and all is past;<lb/> Onely, whilst breath remaines, my hope doth last.<lb/> This life of ours is tost to and againe,<lb/> Time and unconstant Fortune workes our bane:<lb/> Care kils us, griefe, diseases doth outweare<lb/> This life, Death dragges us to the dolefull biere.<lb/> Fortune takes what she in the morning gave;<lb/> Or enemies robbe and spoile what e're we have;<lb/> Strength, beauty perish, honours flye away,<lb/> False friends, when meanes are gone, they will not stay.<lb/> Hope's onely constant in adversity,<lb/> Before she's kild by death, she will not fly.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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The wind, in the shape of a child's head, blows against the weathercock of a bell tower (in the original print: St. Pieterskerk at Middelburg)

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<p>WHITHER THE BREATH OF MY MISTRESS CALLS ME</p>

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