CHARLES.
I should have slept on that as well as in my bed, if my heart had been at ease.
SIR CHARLES.
Charles is right; it is peace of mind and health of body which procures that refreshing sleep so necessary to recruit our exhausted powers. The softest bed will not afford rest to a troubled mind, or a disordered body.
EDWARD.
Who knows, when I am in the army, how many nights I may be obliged to sleep on the ground, without even the straw Emilia despises.
SIR CHARLES.
That may happen; and before young people make choice of a profession, they should arm themselves against the inconveniences, which consequently attend it: always remembering, that every state of life has its pains and pleasures. Every station is eligible, and will afford us heart-felt joy, if we fill it conscientiously: it is about our conduct, not our situation, that we should bestow most thought; and be more anxious to avoid evil than pain.
EDWARD.
I dare say, the king himself has his cares and sorrows as well as the meanest of his subjects.