How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
EDMUND SPENSERFull 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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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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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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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Greatest god below the sky.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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