Ambition.
THe whistling windes me-thinkes do wit∣nesse this,
No greif so great as to have liv'd in blisse.
Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.
About this Item
- Title
- Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.
- Author
- Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for R. Pollard, N. Brooks, and T. Dring, and are to be sold at the Old Exchange, and in Fleetstreet,
- 1658.
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- Subject terms
- Humorous poetry.
- Burlesques.
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- Cite this Item
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"Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52015.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2025.
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Page 125
Then only this poore plain song will I sing.
I was not borne, nor shall I dye a King.
To leape at honour is a daungerous case,
See but the gudgeons they will bite a pace.
Untill the fatall hook be swallowed downe,
Wherewith ambition angles for a crowne:
Then be content and let the baite passe by,
He hath enough that lives contentedly.
But if thou must advancement have, then see
This is the way thou must advanced be.
True temporizing is the meanes to climbe
There is no musick without keeping time.