Let envy, then, those crimes within you see,

From which the happy never must be free;

(Envy, that does with misery reside,

The joy and the revenge of ruined pride.)

Think it not hard, if, at so cheap a rate,

You can secure the constancy of fate,

Whose kindness sent what does their malice seem,

By lesser ills the greater to redeem;

Nor can we this weak shower a tempest call,

But drops of heat that in the sun-shine fall.