William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
The Character of a Happy LifeSir Henry Wotton (15681639)
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That severeth not another’s will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!
Whose soul is still prepared for death,
Untied unto the world by care
Of public fame or private breath;
Nor vice; who never understood
How deepest wounds are given by praise;
Nor rules of state, but rules of good;
Whose conscience is his strong retreat;
Whose state can neither flatterers feed,
Nor ruin make oppressors great;
More of His grace than gifts to lend;
And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend;
Of hope to rise or fear to fall:
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all.