Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
EDMUND SPENSERThe man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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