StoryTitle("caps", "The~Means To~Attain Happy~Life") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Martial, the things that do attain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The happy life be these, I find:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The richesse left, not got with pain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The fruitful ground, the quiet mind;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The equal friend; no grudge, no strife;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No charge of rule, nor governance;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without disease, the healthful life;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The household of continuance;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mean diet, no delicate fare;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "True wisdom join'd with simpleness;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The night dischargéd of all care,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where wine the wit may not oppress.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The faithful wife, without debate;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Such sleeps as may beguile the night:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Contented with thine own estate", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ne wish for death, ne fear his might.", "") ?>
Poet("Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey", "1516-1547") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>