For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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But times do change and move continually.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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