it be a high speech of Seneca after the manner of the Stoic that the good  thing which belong to prosperity be to be wish but the good thing that belong  to adversity be to be admire good a thing following to be wished advolvensque.  miracle certain if miracle be the command over nature they appear most in  adversity it be yet a high speech of his than the other much too high for a  heathen it be true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the  security of a God veer magnum to have brittleness man freedom from care God  this will have do better in poesy where transcendences be more allow and the  poet indeed have be busy with it for it be in effect the thing which figure in  that strange fiction of the ancient poet which seem not to be without mystery  nay and to have some approach to the state of a Christian that Hercules when  he go to unbind prometheus by who human nature be represent sail the length of  the great ocean in a earthen pot or pitcher lively describe Christian  resolution that sail in the frail bark of the flesh through the wave of the  world but to speak in a mean the virtue of prosperity be temperance the virtue  of adversity be fortitude which in moral be the more heroical virtue  prosperity be the blessing of the old testament adversity be the blessing of  the new which carry the great benediction and the clear revelation of God  favour yet even in the old testament if you listen to David harp you shall  hear as many hearse like air as carol and the pencil of the holy ghost have  labour more in describe the affliction of job than the felicity of Solomon  prosperity be not without many fear and distaste and adversity be not without  comfort and hope we see in needle work and embroidery it be more please to  have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and  melancholy work upon a lightsome ground judge therefore of the pleasure of the  heart by the pleasure of the eye certain virtue be like precious odour most  fragrant when they be incense or crush for prosperity do best discover vice  but adversity do best discover virtue