{No Grudge nor Strife}

Martial, the things for to 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 nor strife;

No charge of rule, nor governance;

Without disease the healthy life;

The household of continuance;

The mean diet, no delicate fare;

Wisdom joined with simplicity;

The night dischargèd of all care,

Where wine may bear no sovereignty;

The chaste wife, wise, without debate;

Such sleeps as may beguile the night;

Contented with thine own estate;

Neither wish death nor fear his might.

                                                                          -Henry Howard, 

                                                                           Earl of Surrey (1517-1547).