All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
EDMUND SPENSERSo passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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But times do change and move continually.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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