Remedies against discontentme[n]t : drawen into seuerall discourses, from the writinges of auncient philosophers (1596)
Anonymus, fl. 1596 · London : Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Rafe Blower · leaf 57
-terwards confider others who haue not (6much .• not doing as many men ate went,who oneJy looke at thofe that haue motefubftace the thefelues, wondering at the ,& reputing them to be happie* Like vntoprifoners who deeme them fortunate thatare at libertie,thofe that are at libertie on-lye fuch… … Di/contentment. And here.hence it commeth to pafle,that being notable to match them whoare of greater power, they are malecon-rcnt with their owne eftates♦ Which isno other thing then vngratefulneffe to-wardes god, and a torment to them-felues. A wife man, albeit that others getthe ftait of him in…
Conduct of life
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