How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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