[968] [chance.]
[969] [strong.]
[970] [contend.]
[971] Ver. 224. Fol. MS. reads land, and has not the following stanza.
V.
MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS.
This excellent philosophical song appears to have been famous in the sixteenth century. It is quoted by Ben Jonson in his play of Every Man out of his Humour, first acted in 1599, act i. sc. 1, where an impatient person says—
"I am no such pil'd cynique to believe
That beggery is the onely happinesse,
Or, with a number of these patient fooles,
To sing, 'My minde to me a kingdome is,'
When the lanke hungrie belly barkes for foode."