<p>THE Fish that in the Weel are taken,<lb/> When they find no issue more,<lb/> Feel the stronger wish awaken<lb/> To be where they were before:<lb/> But the Fish that see them in it,<lb/> Think it far more pleasant there;<lb/> And they strive their best to win it,<lb/> Swimming round it ev'rywhere.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac082"/> Thus it is that men, like Fishes,<lb/> Ne'er contented with their lot,<lb/> Ever restless in their wishes,<lb/> Craving more than what they've got;-<lb/> In their greed of wealth and station,<lb/> Coveting yet more and more,<lb/> Oft in change of situation,<lb/> Find it worse than t'was before.</p> <p>PISCIS cùm modo ingrediendi nassam videat, egrediendi non videat, et nihilominùs<lb/> ingrediatur, piscatoribus fit praeda: non est ergò suscipiendum negotium, nisi<lb/> priùs perspectà ratione quâ te possis inde rursus explicare: nec enim labyrinthi<lb/> ingrediendi sunt sine filo, quo securus possis redire.<lb/> NEMO est, quin ubivis, quàm ibi, ubi est, esse malit: nam suam quisque conditionem<lb/> miserrimam putat; cùm tamen contentum suis reus esse, maximae sunt certissimae-<lb/> que divitiae. -CICERO.<lb/> Non esse cupidum, pecunia est.<lb/> SI vis gaudere per unum diem, radas barbam, si per septimanam, vade ad nuptias;<lb/> si per mensem, eme pulchrum equum; si per semestre, eme pulchram domum; si per<lb/> annum, ducas pulchram uxorem; si per biennium, fias sacerdos; si semper vis esse<lb/> laetus et gaudens, vives tua sorte contentus. -Thesaurus ridendi.</p> <p>AMONG good things I prove and find<lb/> The quiet lyfe doth most abounde,<lb/> And sure to the contented mynde<lb/> There is no riches may be founde. -Songs and Sonnetes. <lb/> LET not what I cannot have<lb/> My cheer of mind destroy.-COLLEY CIBBER.<lb/> ALL men have their trials and afflictions, but a contented mind accomodates itself<lb/> to every vicissitude of life; neither poverty nor distress, neither losses not<lb/> disapointments, neither sickness nor sorrow, can affect its equanimity. -DR. BREWER.<lb/> A CONTENTED mind is free from the distressing passions of ambition, covetousness,<lb/> jealousy, envy and the like, which prey like Vultures upon the peace of the discontented.-Ibid.<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac083"/> MEN always desire more than they possess, yet scarcity has been the ruin of fewer<lb/> People than abundance and repletion.-THEOGNIS.<lb/> I AM richer than you, if I do not want things, which you cannot do without.<lb/> SOCRATES.</p> <p>THERE is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, <lb/> No chemic art can counterfeit;<lb/> It makes men rich in greatest poverty,<lb/> Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold,<lb/> The homely whistle to sweet music's strain;<lb/> Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent,<lb/> That much in little-all in nought-Content.<lb/> WILBYE'S Madrigals.</p> <p>IF there be any happiness to be found upon earth, it is in that which we call<lb/> contentation: this is a flower that grows not in every garden: the great Doctor of the<lb/> Gentiles tells us that he had it; I have learned (saith he) in what estate soever I<lb/> am, therewith to be content. -BP. HALL. Of Contentation.</p> <p>IF solod happiness we prize,<lb/> Within our breast the jewel lies;<lb/> And they are fools who roam:<lb/> The world has nothing to bestow;<lb/> From our own selves our joys must flow,<lb/> And that dear place our home.<lb/> COTTON.</p> <p>Vain is alike the joy we seek,<lb/> And vain what we possess,<lb/> Unless harmonious reason tunes<lb/> The Passions into peace.<lb/> TO temper'd whishes, just desires,<lb/> Is happiness confin'd;<lb/> And, deaf to folly's call, attends<lb/> The music of the mind.<lb/> CARTER.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac084"/> <p>ALL living things with others losse maintaine<lb/> Their life, not so my harmelesse light I gaine.<lb/> The plant doth feede upon the fertile foile;<lb/> And bruitish beasts the pleasant plants doe spoile;<lb/> So harmelesse beast, and bird, and fish must dy,<lb/> To pamper mans too licorish gluttony.<lb/> But of dondition though I mortal be;<lb/> Yet this my Light is onely nurst by me.<lb/> The most of men doe live by others losse,<lb/> Whilst others goods they to themselves engrosse:<lb/> So man proves wolfe to man, and robbery gives<lb/> Most gaine to him, who most unjustly lives.<lb/> Thrice happy's he, who's of his state content,<lb/> As if it were Crassus or Croesus rent.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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