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1655

Momenta desultoria

Constantijn Huygens

X. HAst thou lost hy money, and dost thou mourne? Another lost it before thou hadst it; Be not troubled: Perchance if thou hadst not lost it now, it had lost thee for ever: Think therefore what thou rather hast escaped then lost: perhaps thou hadst not been so much thy owne, had not thy money been so little thine.

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