Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other

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Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other
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[London] :: Apud Richardum Tottel. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum,
1557.
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"Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03742.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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The meanes to attain happy life.

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MArtial, the thinges that do attain The happy life, be these, I finde. The richesse left, not got with pain: The frutefull ground: the quiet minde: The egall frend, no grudge, no strife: No charge of rule, nor gouernance: Without disease the healthful life: The houshold of continuance: The meane diet, no delicate fare: Trew wisdom ioyned with simplenesse: The night discharged of all care, where wine the wit may not oppresse: The faithfull wife, without debate: Such slepes, as may begile the night: Contented with thine own estate, Ne wish for death, ne feare his might.
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