Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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