Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSERMe seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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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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