CHAP. XXX.
AS oft as I heare the Robin-red-brest chaunt it as cheerefully in Septem∣ber, the beginning of Winter, as in March the approach of the Summer, why should not wee (think I) give as cheerefull entertainement to the hoary-frosty hayres of our ages winter, as to the Prim-roses of our youth's spring? Why not to the declining sunn in adversity, as (like Persians) to the rising sunn of pro∣sperity? I am sent to the Ant, to learn industry; to the Dove, to learn innocen∣cy; to the Serpent, to learn wisedom; And why not to this bird to learn equanimity and patience; and to keepe the same te∣nour of my minds quietnes, as well at the approach of calamities winter, as of the spring of happines? And, since the Ro∣mans constancy is so commended, who changed not his countenance with his