• From “Farewell to Follie,” 1617
    SWEET are the thoughts that savor of content;
      The quiet mind is richer than a crown;
    Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent,—
      The poor estate scorns Fortune’s angry frown:
    Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,
    Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.

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