Content is more than a kingdom.

Content is more than a kingdom.

Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.

Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

My poverty, but not my will consents.

My poverty, but not my will consents.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.

Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.

We ne'er shall look upon his like again.

We ne'er shall look upon his like again.

Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]

Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.