It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBegin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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