Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
EDMUND SPENSERTo be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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