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.
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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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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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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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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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