And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSERThose 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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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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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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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