2 Whose passions not his masters are,

3 Who hath his life from rumors freed, Whose conscience is his strong retreat,

Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great!

death,

Untied unto the world by care

Of public fame or private breath;

Of hope to rise, or fear to fall, – Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton, 1568