So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
EDMUND SPENSERGood is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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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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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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 since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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