To Sir Robert Wroth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGHCCIIIIII JJBBKKFFKKLLMNLLOOPP FEQQRRIILLSSOOIIIISS IITTUVWWXXOOLLAAWWII AAIIOOPPWWLLYYLLWWAA WWWWWW| How blest art thou canst love the countrey Wroth | A |
| Whether by choyce or fate or both | A |
| And though so neere the Citie and the Court | B |
| Art tane with neithers vice nor sport | B |
| That at great times art no ambitious guest | C |
| Of Sheriffes dinner or Maiors feast | D |
| Nor com'st to view the better cloth of State | E |
| The richer hangings or crowne plate | E |
| Nor throng'st when masquing is to have a fight | F |
| Of the short braverie of the night | F |
| To view the jewels stuffes the paines the wit | G |
| There wasted some not paid for yet | H |
| But canst at home in thy securer rest | C |
| Live with un bought provision blest | C |
| Free from proud porches or their guilded roofes | I |
| 'Mongst loughing heards and solid hoofes | I |
| Along'st the curled woods and painted meades | I |
| Through which a serpent river leades | I |
| To some coole courteous shade which he cals his | I |
| And makes sleep softer than it is | I |
| Or if thou list the night in watch to breake | J |
| A bed canst heare the loud stag speake | J |
| In spring oft roused for their masters sport | B |
| Who for it makes thy house his court | B |
| Or with thy friends the heart of all the yeare | K |
| Divid'st upon the lesser Deere | K |
| In Autumne at the Partrich mak'st a flight | F |
| And giv'st thy gladder guests the sight | F |
| And in the Winter hunt'st the flying Hare | K |
| More for thy exercise than fare | K |
| While all that follow their glad eares apply | L |
| To the full greatnesse of the cry | L |
| Or hauking at the River or the Bush | M |
| Or shooting at the greedy Thrush | N |
| Thou dost with some delight the day out weare | L |
| Although the coldest of the yeare | L |
| The whil'st the severall seasons thou hast seene | O |
| Of flowry Fields of cop'ces greene | O |
| The mowed Meddows with the fleeced Sheep | P |
| And feasts that either shearers keep | P |
| The ripened eares yet humble in their height | F |
| And furrows laden with their weight | E |
| The apple harvest that doth longer last | Q |
| The hogs return'd home fat from mast | Q |
| The trees cut out in log and those boughs made | R |
| A fire now that lend a shade | R |
| Thus Pan and Sylvane having had their rites | I |
| Comus puts in for new delights | I |
| And fils thy open hall with mirth and cheere | L |
| As if in Saturnes raigne it were | L |
| Apollo's Harpe and Hermes Lyre resound | S |
| Nor are the Muses strangers found | S |
| The rout of rurall folk come thronging in | O |
| Their rudenesse then is thought no sin | O |
| Thy noblest pouse affords them welcome grace | I |
| And the great Heroes of her race | I |
| Sit mixt with losse of State or reverence | I |
| Freedome doth with degree dispence | I |
| The jolly wassall walks the often round | S |
| And in their cups their cares are drown'd | S |
| They think not then which side the cause shall leese | I |
| Nor how to get the Lawyer fees | I |
| Such and no other was that age of old | T |
| Which boasts t'have had the head of gold | T |
| And such since thou canst make thine own content | U |
| Strive Wroth to live long innocent | V |
| Let others watch in guilty armes and stand | W |
| The fury of a rash command | W |
| Go enter breaches meet the cannons rage | X |
| That they may sleep with scarres in age | X |
| And shew their feathers shot and Cullours torne | O |
| And brag that they were therefore borne | O |
| Let this man sweat and wrangle at the barre | L |
| For every price in every jarre | L |
| And change possessions oftner with his breath | A |
| Than either money war or death | A |
| Let him than hardest sires more disinherit | W |
| And each where boast it as his merit | W |
| To blow up Ophanes Widdows and their states | I |
| And think his power doth equall Fates | I |
| Let that go heape a masse of wretched wealth | A |
| Purchas'd by rapine worse than stealth | A |
| And brooding o're it sit with broadest eyes | I |
| Not doing good scarce when he dyes | I |
| Let thousands more go flatter vice and winne | O |
| By being organes to great sin | O |
| Get place and honor and be glad to keepe | P |
| The secrets that shall breake their sleepe | P |
| And so they ride in Purple eat in Plate | W |
| Though poyson thinke it a great fate | W |
| But thou my Wroth if I can truth apply | L |
| Shalt neither that nor this envy | L |
| Thy peace is made and when mans state is well | Y |
| 'Tis better if he there can dwell | Y |
| God wisheth none should wracke on a strange shelfe | L |
| To him man's dearer than t'himselfe | L |
| And howsoever we may thinke things sweet | W |
| He alwayes gives what he knowes meet | W |
| Which who can use is happy Such be thou | A |
| Thy mornings and thy evenings Vow | A |
| Be thankes to him and earnest prayer to finde | W |
| A body sound with sounder minde | W |
| To do thy Countrey service thy selfe right | W |
| That neither Want doe thee affright | W |
| Nor Death but when thy latest sand is spent | W |
| Thou maist thinke life a thing but lent | W |
Ben Jonson
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