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.
EDMUND SPENSERBut 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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But times do change and move continually.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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