strict course of private jarres, that they
With mee, in such an equall peace should rest.
I know not what to morrow's fortune brings
Heire to my selfe alone. The wealth she gave
Lyes in my outmost roomes, 'mongst worst of things;
Which, without force, she may for taking have.
Things can be ta'ne away, I ne're thought mine;
Not poorer I, if mine owne selfe compleat.
I kingdome, _Marcus_, of my selfe I find
If the great custome of mine owne estate--
Within me I could in just numbers cast.
A great part of my mind lyes close, more wide
Then the rich Indyes are, to which at most
But thrice a yeare, we can but sayle or ride.
But my rich mind, oft to it selfe a guest,
By its owne selfe is daily visited;
Not 'bout to buy Toyes for a roome, or feast,
If of its selfe it's seen, it's richly fed.

_Ad Aurelium Fuscum._

Omnia humana Caduca, incertaque esse.

_Ode 12. Lib. 3._

Si primum vacuis demere corticem
Rebus. _Fusce_, velis, cetera diffluunt
Vernae more nivis, quae modo nubium
Leni tabuit halitu.
Formosis reseces fortia; displicent.
Externis trahimur; si male Dardanis
Respondens Helenae pectus amoribus
Famosus videat Paris;
Nusquam per medii praelia Nerei
Ventorumque minas splendida deferat
Graii furta thori sed bene mutuo
Rerum consuluit jugo
Naturae Dominus, quod niveis nigra,
Laetis occuluit tristia. Qui bona
Rerum de vario deliget agmine,
Consulto sapiet Deo.

To _Aurelius Fuscus_.

_That all humane things are fraile and uncertaine._

Ode 12. Lib. 3.

If the first barke, _Fuscus_, thou would'st but pare
From empty things, the rest will flow,
And vanish quite like vernal snow;
Which melts away, with the mild breath o'th' ayre.
Valour from beauty sever'd, slowly moves.
Meere outsides please: had _Paris_ seene
Faire _Helens_ heart, how foule 't had beene,
How ill requiting to the _Trojan_ Loves,
Ne're, through the midst of _Nereus_ broyles, had hee
Or the winds anger, borne away
O'th' Grecian bed that beauteous prey.
But Nature's Lord, the mutuall yoke, we see,
Of things hath ord'red well, that black with white,
Sad things with joyfull cov'red lye.
And from this various mixt