StoryTitle("caps", "The Noble Balm ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "High-spirited friend,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I send nor balms nor cor'sives to your wound:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Your fate hath found", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A gentler and more agile hand to tend", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cure of that which is but corporal; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And doubtful days, which were named critical,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Have made their fairest flight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And now are out of sight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet doth some wholesome physic for the mind", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Wrapp'd in this paper lie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which in the taking if you misapply,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "You are unkind.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Your covetous hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Happy in that fair honour it hath gain'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Must now be rein'd. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "True valour doth her own renown command", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In one full action; nor have you now more", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To do, than be a husband of that store.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Think but how dear you bought", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "This fame which you have caught: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such thoughts will make you more in love with truth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5SQ", "", "'Tis wisdom, and that high,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For men to use their fortune reverently,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Even in youth.", "") ?>
Poet("Ben Jonson", "1573-1637") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>