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WOULDST thou be free? I think it not, indeed; / But if thou wouldst, attend this simple rede: / [When quite contented / Thou shall be free when] thou canst dine at / home / And drink a small wine of the march of Rome; / When thou canst see unmoved thy neighbour's plate, / And wear my threadbare toga in the gate; / When thou hast learned to love a small abode, / And not to choose a mistress _à la mode_: / When thus contained and bridled thou shalt be, / Then, Maximus, then first shalt thou be free.