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Edmund Joseph Sullivan, Melancholy (1885) 

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"The Peasant Poet" 
John Clare (1793-1864) 
He loved the brook's soft sound,
  The swallow swimming by.
He loved the daisy-covered ground,
  The cloud-bedap...

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"I Joy Not in No Earthly Bliss" (1588)

William Byrd (1540-1623) 
I joy not in no earthly bliss, I force not Croesus’ wealth a straw: For care, I know not what it is, I fear not Fortune’s fatal law. My mind is such as may not move,  For beauty bright nor force of love. 
I wish but what I have at will, I wander not to seek ...

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A passage to the second argument for constancy, which is taken from necessity. The force and violence thereof, this necessity is considered two ways, and first in the things themselves.

"This is a sure brazen target against all outward accidents. This is that gold armor wherewith being fenced, Plato wills us to fight against chance and fortune, to be sub...

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