William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
The Means to Attain Happy LifeHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey (15171547)
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The happy life be these, I find:—
The riches left, not got with pain;
The fruitful ground, the quiet mind;
No charge of rule, nor governance;
Without disease, the healthful life;
The household of continuance;
True wisdom join’d with simpleness;
The night dischargèd of all care,
Where wine the wit may not oppress.
Such sleeps as may beguile the night:
Contented with thine own estate
Ne wish for death, ne fear his might.