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Thrice and above blest my soul's half art thou	A
In thy both last and better vow	A
Could'st leave the city for exchange to see	B
The country's sweet simplicity	B
And it to know and practise with intent	C
To grow the sooner innocent	D
By studying to know virtue and to aim	E
More at her nature than her name	E
The last is but the least the first doth tell	F
Ways less to live than to live well	F
And both are known to thee who now canst live	G
Led by thy conscience to give	H
Justice to soon pleased nature and to show	I
Wisdom and she together go	I
And keep one centre This with that conspires	B
To teach man to confine desires	B
And know that riches have their proper stint	J
In the contented mind not mint	J
And canst instruct that those who have the itch	K
Of craving more are never rich	K
These things thou knows't to th' height and dost prevent	C
That plague because thou art content	C
With that Heaven gave thee with a wary hand	L
More blessed in thy brass than land	L
To keep cheap Nature even and upright	M
To cool not cocker appetite	M
Thus thou canst tersely live to satisfy	N
The belly chiefly not the eye	N
Keeping the barking stomach wisely quiet	O
Less with a neat than needful diet	O
But that which most makes sweet thy country life	P
Is the fruition of a wife	P
Whom stars consenting with thy fate thou hast	Q
Got not so beautiful as chaste	R
By whose warm side thou dost securely sleep	S
While Love the sentinel doth keep	S
With those deeds done by day which ne'er affright	R
Thy silken slumbers in the night	R
Nor has the darkness power to usher in	T
Fear to those sheets that know no sin	T
The damask'd meadows and the pebbly streams	B
Sweeten and make soft your dreams	B
The purling springs groves birds and well weaved bowers	B
With fields enamelled with flowers	B
Present their shapes while fantasy discloses	B
Millions of Lilies mix'd with Roses	B
Then dream ye hear the lamb by many a bleat	R
Woo'd to come suck the milky teat	R
While Faunus in the vision comes to keep	S
From rav'ning wolves the fleecy sheep	S
With thousand such enchanting dreams that meet	R
To make sleep not so sound as sweet	R
Nor call these figures so thy rest endear	U
As not to rise when Chanticlere	U
Warns the last watch but with the dawn dost rise	B
To work but first to sacrifice	B
Making thy peace with Heaven for some late fault	R
With holy meal and spirting salt	R
Which done thy painful thumb this sentence tells us	B
'Jove for our labour all things sells us '	V
Nor are thy daily and devout affairs	B
Attended with those desp'rate cares	B
Th' industrious merchant has who for to find	R
Gold runneth to the Western Ind	R
And back again tortured with fears doth fly	N
Untaught to suffer Poverty	R
But thou at home blest with securest ease	B
Sitt'st and believ'st that there be seas	B
And watery dangers while thy whiter hap	W
But sees these things within thy map	W
And viewing them with a more safe survey	X
Mak'st easy fear unto thee say	X
'A heart thrice walled with oak and brass that man	Y
Had first durst plough the ocean '	V
But thou at home without or tide or gale	Z
Canst in thy map securely sail	Z
Seeing those painted countries and so guess	B
By those fine shades their substances	B
And from thy compass taking small advice	B
Buy'st travel at the lowest price	B
Nor are thine ears so deaf but thou canst hear	U
Far more with wonder than with fear	U
Fame tell of states of countries courts and kings	B
And believe there be such things	B
When of these truths thy happier knowledge lies	B
More in thine ears than in thine eyes	B
And when thou hear'st by that too true report	R
Vice rules the most or all at court	R
Thy pious wishes are though thou not there	U
Virtue had and moved her sphere	U
But thou liv'st fearless and thy face ne'er shows	B
Fortune when she comes or goes	B
But with thy equal thoughts prepared dost stand	R
To take her by the either hand	R
Nor car'st which comes the first the foul or fair	U
A wise man ev'ry way lies square	U
And like a surly oak with storms perplex'd	R
Grows still the stronger strongly vex'd	R
Be so bold Spirit stand centre like unmoved	R
And be not only thought but proved	R
To be what I report thee and inure	U
Thyself if want comes to endure	U
And so thou dost for thy desires are	U
Confined to live with private Lar	U
Nor curious whether appetite be fed	R
Or with the first or second bread	R
Who keep'st no proud mouth for delicious cates	B
Hunger makes coarse meats delicates	B
Canst and unurged forsake that larded fare	U
Which art not nature makes so rare	U
To taste boil'd nettles coleworts beets and eat	R
These and sour herbs as dainty meat	R
While soft opinion makes thy Genius say	B
'Content makes all ambrosia '	V
Nor is it that thou keep'st this stricter size	B
So much for want as exercise	B
To numb the sense of dearth which should sin haste it	R
Thou might'st but only see't not taste it	R
Yet can thy humble roof maintain a quire	U
Of singing crickets by thy fire	U
And the brisk mouse may feast herself with crumbs	B
Till that the green eyed kitling comes	B
Then to her cabin blest she can escape	A2
The sudden danger of a rape	A2
And thus thy little well kept stock doth prove	B2
Wealth cannot make a life but love	C2
Nor art thou so close handed but canst spend	R
Counsel concurring with the end	R
As well as spare still conning o'er this theme	D2
To shun the first and last extreme	D2
Ordaining that thy small stock find no breach	E2
Or to exceed thy tether's reach	E2
But to live round and close and wisely true	U
To thine own self and known to few	U
Thus let thy rural sanctuary be	R
Elysium to thy wife and thee	R
There to disport your selves with golden measure	U
For seldom use commends the pleasure	U
Live and live blest thrice happy pair let breath	F2
But lost to one be th' other's death	F2
And as there is one love one faith one troth	G2
Be so one death one grave to both	G2
Till when in such assurance live ye may	B
Nor fear or wish your dying day	B

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