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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

Edmund Spenser

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Burn Cruelty Death Hate Heart Oneself Revenge Treason
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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Breathe Fair Light Play Soft Spirit 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
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Leaving Love Myself
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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Action Death Live Man Thinking Wisdom Word
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
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
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Fly Happiness Thinking Wings
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right

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