Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.

Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.

This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.

This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

Their silence cries aloud.

Their silence cries aloud.

So obliging that he ne'er obliged.

So obliging that he ne'er obliged.

The reasons of the poore weigh not.

The reasons of the poore weigh not.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.