“A SORROW’S CROWN OF SORROW.”
A similar thought may be found in Dante:—
——nessun maggior dolore,
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.—Inferno, Canto v. 121.
(There is no greater pain than to recall a happy time in wretchedness.)
Also Chaucer:—
For of Fortune’s sharpe adversite
The worst kind of infortune is this: