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Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content,
The quiet mind is richer than a crown;
Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent,
The poor estate scorns Fortune's angry frown.
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Robert Greene (1558?-1592), British author. Farewell to Folly (l. 12). . .
Poets of the English Language, Vols. I-V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; ...
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''Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.''
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Robert Greene (1558?-1592), British author. Menaphon (l. 12). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxfo...
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