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Whence comes it that there liveth not / A man contented with his lot? / Here's one who would a soldier be, / Whom soldiers all with envy see.
A fox to be a wolf once sigh'd. / With disappointments mortified, / Who knows but that, his wolfship cheap, / The wolf himself would be a sheep?