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
EDMUND SPENSERA 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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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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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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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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