Their high-roofed houses, with huge beams combin'd."

'Tis not his wealth can vindicate him, let him have Job's inventory, _sint
Craesi et Crassi licet, non hos Pactolus aureas undas agens, eripiat unquum
e miseriis_, Croesus or rich Crassus cannot now command health, or get
himself a stomach. [3701]"His worship," as Apuleius describes him, "in all
his plenty and great provision, is forbidden to eat, or else hath no
appetite," (sick in bed, can take no rest, sore grieved with some chronic
disease, contracted with full diet and ease, or troubled in mind) "when as,
in the meantime, all his household are merry, and the poorest servant that
he keeps doth continually feast." 'Tis _Bracteata felicitas_, as [3702]
Seneca terms it, tinfoiled happiness, _infelix felicitas_, an unhappy kind
of happiness, if it be happiness at all. His gold, guard, clattering of
harness, and fortifications against outward enemies, cannot free him from
inward fears and cares.

"Reveraque metus hominum, curaeque sequaces
Nec metuunt fremitus armorum, aut ferrea tela,
Audacterque inter reges, regumque potentes
Versantur, neque fulgorem reverentur ab auro."

"Indeed men still attending fears and cares
Nor armours clashing, nor fierce weapons fears:
With kings converse they boldly, and kings peers,
Fearing no flashing that from gold appears."

Look how many servants he hath, and so many enemies he suspects; for
liberty he entertains ambition; his pleasures are no pleasures; and that
which is worst, he cannot be private or enjoy himself as other men do, his
state is a servitude. [3703]A countryman may travel from kingdom to
kingdom, province to province, city to city, and glut his eyes with
delightful objects, hawk, hunt, and use those ordinary disports, without
any notice taken, all which a prince or a great man cannot do. He keeps in
for state, _ne majestatis dignitas evilescat_, as our China kings, of
Borneo, and Tartarian Chams, those _aurea mancipia_, are said to do, seldom
or never seen abroad, _ut major sit hominum erga se observantia_, which the
[3704]Persian kings so precisely observed of old. A poor man takes more
delight in an ordinary meal's meat, which he hath but seldom, than they do
with all their exotic dainties and continual viands; _Quippe voluptatem
commendat rarior usus_, 'tis the rarity and necessity that makes a thing
acceptable and pleasant. Darius, put to flight b