| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | The Patience of Poverty | | X. Arthur Warren |
| | | DEPART, ye discontents, like reprobates, | |
| For Patience all adversities endures; | |
| In rarest disposition imitates | |
| Hearbe Panace, that all diseases cures, | |
| Heales interne maladies of wounded minds, | 5 |
| And salves the sores that physicke salveless finds. | |
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| Credit not vaine Perswasion, that deludes | |
| Fond Tractability with fallacies, | |
| And such inducements forcibly intrudes | |
| Into credulitie with sophistries, | 10 |
| That man, whom reason’s index should direct, | |
| Suggested is—true judgement to neglect. | |
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| Aske Contentation, what’s felicity? | |
| And aske Felicity, what is content? | |
| Aske Life, what is the death of misery? | 15 |
| And aske dumbe Death, what makes life permanent? | |
| Persue the contents of contented minde, | |
| Thou nought but Patience registred shalt finde. | |
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| Discretion, censure, which is better found | |
| Much to possesse, and nathlesse live in neede, | 20 |
| Or to enjoy but little, and abound, | |
| So competence necessities may steede. | |
| Brooks satisfie thirst with convenient store, | |
| The spacious ocean’s liquid can no more. | | | | |
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