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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

Edmund Spenser

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Myself Promise Reason Season Time
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
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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Attraction Comfortable Eyes Grace Kind Sweet Thinking
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Fall Lost Oneself Place
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
Greatest god below the sky.
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God Greatness Sky
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Himself Home Hypocrisy True
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
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

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