That can all crosses blessings make;

That finds himself ere he be lost,

And lose that found for virtue's sake.

Yea, blest is he, in life and death,

That fears not death nor loves this life;

That sets his will his wit beneath;

And hath continual peace in strife.

That naught observes but what preserves

His mind and body from offense;

That neither courts nor seasons serves,