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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

Edmund Spenser

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
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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Action Brave Care Deserve Excellence Freedom Goodness Praise Virtue Willing
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Fashion Law Manner Right Rule Simplicity
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Chain Togetherness
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Inspirational Love Power
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
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Content Heart Love Queen Smile Yourself
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
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Easy Man Willing
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Angel Eyes Face Greatness Place Sunshine
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest

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