Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
35
GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 232.

Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
36
THOMSON: _Seasons, Autumn,_ Line 204.


=Adversity.=

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
37
SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
38
SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

I am not now in fortune's power: