StoryTitle("caps", "The Character of a Happy Life") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How happy is he born and taught ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That serveth not another's will; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose armour is his honest thought, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And simple truth his utmost skill! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose passions not his masters are; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose soul is still prepared for death, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Untied unto the world by care ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of public fame or private breath; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who envies none that chance doth raise, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor vice; who never understood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How deepest wounds are given by praise; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor rules of state, but rules of good; ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who hath his life from rumours freed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose conscience is his strong retreat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose state can neither flatterers feed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor ruin make oppressors great; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who God doth late and early pray ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "More of His grace than gifts to lend; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And entertains the harmless day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a religious book or friend; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—This man is freed from servile bands ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of hope to rise or fear to fall: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lord of himself, though not of lands, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And having nothing, yet hath all.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Henry Wotton", "1568-1639") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>