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
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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