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1 | 1 | My mind to me a kingdom is | My minde to me a kingdome is; |
2 | 2 | Such perfect joy therein | Such perfect joy therein i finde |
3 | 3 | As farre exceeds all earthly blisse, | |
4 | 4 | That God or | That God, or Nature, hath assignde: |
5 | 5 | Though much I want, that most would have, | Though much I want, that most would have, |
6 | 6 | Yet still my mind forbids to crave. | Yet still my mind forbids to crave. |
7 | 7 | ||
8 | 8 | Content I live; this is my stay; | |
9 | 9 | I seek no more than may suffice: | |
10 | 10 | I presse to beare no haugthie sway; | |
11 | 11 | Look what I lack my mind supplies. | |
12 | 12 | Loe! thus I triumph like a king, | |
13 | 13 | Content with that my mind doth bring. | |
14 | 14 | ||
15 | 15 | I see | I see how plentie surfets oft, |
16 | 16 | And hast | And hastie clymbers soonest fall: |
17 | 17 | I see that such as | I see that such as sit aloft |
18 | 18 | Mishap doth threaten most of all | Mishap doth threaten most of all: |
19 | 19 | These get with toil, and keep with fear: | These get with toile, and keep with feare: |
20 | 20 | Such cares my mind c | Such cares my mind could never beare. |
21 | 21 | ||
22 | 22 | No princely pompe, nor welthie store, | |
23 | 23 | No force to winne the victorie, | |
24 | 24 | No wylie wit to salve a sore, | |
25 | 25 | No shape to winne a lover's eye; | |
26 | 26 | To none of these I yeeld as thrall, | |
27 | 27 | For why my mind despiseth all. | |
28 | 28 | ||
29 | 29 | Some have too much, yet still they crave; | |
30 | 30 | I little have, yet seek no more: | |
31 | 31 | They are but poore, tho' much they have; | |
32 | 32 | I | And I am rich with little store: |
33 | 33 | They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; | |
34 | 34 | They lacke, I lend; they pine, I live. | |
35 | 35 | ||
36 | 36 | I laugh not at another's losse, | |
37 | 37 | I grudge not at another's gaine; | |
38 | 38 | No worldly wave my mind can tosse; | |
39 | 39 | I brooke that is another's bane: | |
40 | 40 | I feare no foe, nor fawne on friend; | |
41 | I lothe not life, nor dread mine end. | ||
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43 | I joy not in no earthly blisse; | ||
44 | I weigh not Cresus' welth a straw; | ||
45 | For care, I care not what it is; | ||
46 | I feare not fortune's fatall law: | ||
47 | My mind is such as may not move | ||
48 | For beautie bright or force of love. | ||
49 | |||
50 | I wish but what I have at will; | ||
51 | I wander not to seeke for more; | ||
52 | I like the plaine, I clime no hill; | ||
53 | In greatest storms I sitte on shore; | ||
54 | And laugh at them that toile in vaine | ||
55 | To get what must be lost againe. | ||
56 | |||
57 | I kisse not where I wish to kill; | ||
58 | I feigne not love where most I hate; | ||
59 | I breake no sleep to winne my will; | ||
60 | I wayte not at the mightie's gate; | ||
61 | I scorne no poore, I fear no rich; | ||
62 | I feele no want, nor have too much. | ||
63 | |||
64 | The court, ne cart, I like, ne loath; | ||
65 | Extreames are counted worst of all: | ||
66 | The golden meane betwixt them both | ||
67 | Doth surest sit, and fears no fall: | ||
68 | This is my choyce, for why I finde, | ||
69 | No wealth is like a quiet minde. | ||
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71 | My welth is health, and perfect ease; | ||
72 | My conscience clere my chiefe defence: | ||
73 | I never seeke by brybes to please, | ||
74 | Nor by desert to give offence: | ||
75 | Thus do I live, thus will I die; | ||
41 | 76 | Would all did so as well as I! | Would all did so as well as I! |
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