, et olim sic erit semper_; a good hour may come upon a sudden; [3809]
expect a little.

Yea, but this expectation is it which tortures me in the mean time; [3810]
_futura expectans praesentibus angor_, whilst the grass grows the horse
starves: [3811]despair not, but hope well,

[3812] "Spera Batte, tibi melius lux Crastina ducet;
Dum spiras spera"------

Cheer up, I say, be not dismayed; _Spes alit agricolas_: "he that sows in
tears, shall reap in joy," Psal. cxxvi. 7.

"Si fortune me tormente,
Esperance me contente."

Hope refresheth, as much as misery depresseth; hard beginnings have many
times prosperous events, and that may happen at last which never was yet.
"A desire accomplished delights the soul," Prov. xiii. 19.

[3813] "Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora:"

"Which makes m'enjoy my joys long wish'd at last,
Welcome that hour shall come when hope is past:"

a lowering morning may turn to a fair afternoon, [3814]_Nube solet pulsa
candidus ire dies_. "The hope that is deferred, is the fainting of the
heart, but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life," Prov. xiii. 12,
[3815]_suavissimum est voti compos fieri_. Many men are both wretched and
miserable at first, but afterwards most happy: and oftentimes it so falls
out, as [3816]Machiavel relates of Cosmo de Medici, that fortunate and
renowned citizen of Europe, "that all his youth was full of perplexity,
danger, and misery, till forty years were past, and then upon a sudden the
sun of his honour broke out as through a cloud." Huniades was fetched out
of prison, and Henry the Third of Portugal out of a poor monastery, to be
crowned kings.

"Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra,"

"Many things happen between the cup and the lip,"

beyond all hope and expectation many things fall out, and who knows what
may happen? _Nondum omnium dierum Soles occiderunt_, as Philippus said, all
the suns are not yet set, a day may come to make amends for all. "Though my
father and mother forsake me, yet the Lord will gather me up," Psal. xxvii.
10. "Wait patiently on the Lord, and hope in him," Psal. xxxvii. 7. "Be
strong, hope and trust in the Lord, and he will comfort thee, and give thee
thine heart's desire," Psal. xxvii. 14.

"Sperate et vosmet rebus servate secundis."

"Hope, and reserve yourself for prosperity."

Fret not thyself because thou art poor, contemned, or not so well