Deem your heart as virtuous
When your nature is not jealous.
No excellence excels the one
That by nature envies none.
Who envies others' good fortune
Can't prosper in virtue of his own.
The wise through envy don't others wrong
Knowing that woes from evils throng.
Man shall be wrecked by envy's whim
Even if enemies spare him.
Who envies gifts shall suffer ruin
Without food and clothes with his kin.
Fortune deserts the envious
Leaving misfortune ominous.
Caitiff envy despoils wealth
And drags one into evil path.
Why is envy rich, goodmen poor
People with surprise think over.
The envious prosper never
The envyless prosper ever.
AVOID ENVY
