BOOKOFOLD-WORLDGARDENS 



Questions Quid pure tran quillet, honos an dulce lucellum, 

 ought to An secretum iter > et fallentis semita vitae. 

 linuelf j the learned 



By what means you may gently pass your age, 

 What lessens care, what makes thee thine own 



friend, 



What truly calms the mind; honour, or wealth, 

 Or else a private path of stealing life ? 



These are questions that a man ought at least 

 to ask himself, whether he asks others or no, and 

 to choose his course of life rather by his own 

 humour and temper, than by common acci- 

 dents, or ad vice of friends; atleastiftheSpanish 

 proverb be true, That a fool knows more in his 

 own house, than a wise man in another's. 



The measure of choosing well, is, whether a 

 man likes what he has chosen, which I thank 

 God has befallen me; and though among the 

 follies of my life, building and planting have not 

 been the least, and have cost me more than I 

 have the confidence to own; yet they have been 

 fully recompensed by the sweetness and satis- 

 faction of this retreat, where, since my resolu- 

 tion taken of never entering again into any pub- 

 lic employments, I have passed five years with- 



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