But times do change and move continually.
EDMUND SPENSERBut Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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