| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Content | | By Robert Greene (1558–1592) |
| | | SWEET are the thoughts that savour of content, | |
| The quiet mind is richer than a crown, | |
| Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent, | |
| The poor estate scorns Fortune’s angry frown: | |
| Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, | 5 |
| Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. | |
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| The homely house that harbours quiet rest, | |
| The cottage that affords no pride nor care, | |
| The mean that ’grees with country music best, | |
| The sweet consort of mirth and modest fare, | 10 |
| Obscurèd life sets down a type of bliss: | |
| A mind content both crown and kingdom is. | | | | |
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