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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Edmund Spenser

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  Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.

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  My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?

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  Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.

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