Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
EDMUND SPENSERFor 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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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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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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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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