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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

Edmund Spenser

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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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Color Earth Flower Glory Goodness Herself Love Spring
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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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Bad Fall Goodness Himself Return Worst
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
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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Flesh Live Man Spirit Teaching Yourself
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
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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Creature Enemy God Grace Love Man Mercy Service Wickedness
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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God Grant Love Wisdom
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Absence Cry Friendship Herself Loss

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

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