All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
EDMUND SPENSERFor we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Me 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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