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Farewell to Folly 
Robert Greene 
Greenes Farewell to Folly (1591, 31)

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; 
The quiet mind is richer than a crown; 
Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent; 
The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown: 
Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, 
Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. 

The homely house that harbours quiet rest; 
The cottage that affords no pride nor care; 
The mean that 'grees with country music best; 
The sweet consort of mirth and music's fare; 
Obscurèd life sets down a type of bliss: 
A mind content both crown and kingdom is.