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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Edmund Spenser

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  Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

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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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  For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

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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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  All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.

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  Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

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  And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

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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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  But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

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  For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

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  Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

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  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.

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  Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

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  And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

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  To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

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  In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

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