He gather'd Violets, or toothlesse Roses?

What meaneth it, but onely to expresse

How great a joy, well-grounded Patientnesse

Retaines in Suff'rings? and, what sport she makes,

When she her Iourney through Affliction takes?

I, oft have sayd (and, have as oft, beene thought

To speake a Paradox, that favours nought

Of likely truth) that, some Afflictions bring

A Honey bag, which cureth ev'ry Sting

(That wounds the Flesh) by giving to the Mind,