The old English reading is:
'I was well; I would be better; and here I am.'
| [No. 26] | Friday, March 30, 1711 | Addison |
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
Regumque turres, O beate Sexti,
Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.
Jam te premet nox, fabulæque manes,
Et domus exilis Plutonia.
Hor.
When I am in a serious Humour, I very often walk by my self in