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
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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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