Thursday, December 06, 2012
A Threefold-Blessed, Tenfold-Happy Man
William Lathum, "Felice chi puo," in his Phyala Lachrymarum...Together with sundry choyce Meditations of Mortalitie (London: Printed by R.Y. for George Lathum, 1634), pp. 27-28:
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Blest mote hee ever bee, who ever can
Compose the joyes, and sorrows of his mind;
Chuse truth from errour, flow'r from the bran;
Willing obey Gods sacred Lawes in kinde;
Decline the vice, to which hee's most inclin'd;
Richly contented bee, what ere God send;
Slight injuries, as chaffe before the winde,
Finde a fit wife, and faithfull bosome friend:
Who some, nay one, but all these things who can,
Is sure a threefold-blessed, tenfold-happy man.
