My Friends, The Things That Do Attain
"My Friends, The Things That Do Attain" By Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey) My Friends, the things that do attain The happy life be these, I find: The riches left, not got with pain; The fruitful ground; the quiet mind; The equal friend; no grudge; no strife; No charge of rule, not governance; Without disease, the healthy life; The household of continuance; The mean diet, no dainty fare; Wisdom joined with simpleness; The night discharged of all care, Where wine the wit may not oppress: The fruitful wife, without debate; Such sleeps as may beguile the night; Content thyself with thine estate, Neither wise death, nor fear his might. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: 1517-1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was English nobleman, politician and a poet. He was one of the founder of English Renaissance poetry. He and his friend Sir Thomas Wyat...