Note 1431 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
After ver. 66 in the MS.
Tis peace of mind alone is at a stay: The rest mad fortune gives or takes away: All other bliss by accident's debarred, But virtue's, in the instant, a reward; In hardest trials operates the best, And more is relished as the more distressed.—Warburton.
There is still another couplet in the MS.:
Virtue's plain consequence is happiness, Or virtue makes the disappointment less.