Oh, the gallant fisher's life!
It is the best of any;
'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,
And 't is beloved by many.
The Angler. (John Chalkhill.)[209:1]
Footnotes
[207:1] Virtue is her own reward.—Dryden: Tyrannic Love, act iii. sc. 1.
Virtue is to herself the best reward.—Henry More: Cupid's Conflict.
Virtue is its own reward.—Prior: Imitations of Horace, book iii. ode 2. Gay: Epistle to Methuen. Home: Douglas, act iii. sc. 1.
Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.—Diogenes Laertius: Plato, xlii.