Desiderabilia Vitae

Give me the haunch of a buck to eat, And to drink Madeira old; And a gentle wife to rest with, And in my arms to fold.

An Arabic book to study, A gipsy pony to ride; And a house to live in shaded by trees, Near to a river's side.

With such good things around me, And with good health withal, Though I should live for a hundred years For death I would not call.