For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
EDMUND SPENSERMan’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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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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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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