A man to have been in prosperite
And it remember when it passid is.
Troilus and Cresside, B. III.
The same thought occurs in the writings of other Italian poets. See Marino, Adone, c. xiv.; Fortinguerra, Ricciardetto, c. xi.; and Petrarch, canzone 46. The original was probably in Boetius, de Consol. Philosoph.:—
In omni adversitate fortunæ infeliCissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem et non esse.—L. ii. pr. 4.
The famous pun in the imitation of Crabbe in the Rejected Addresses:—
The youth, with joy unfeigned,
Regained the felt, and felt what he regained,
and of Holmes in his Urania:—