Granting grim Death at equal distance there;

Yet peace begins just where ambition ends. 940

What makes man wretched? Happiness denied?

Lorenzo! no: ’tis happiness disdain’d.

She comes too meanly dress’d to win our smile;

And calls herself Content, a homely name!

Our flame is transport, and Content our scorn.

Ambition turns, and shuts the door against her,

And weds a toil, a tempest, in her stead;

A tempest to warm transport near of kin.