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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.

Edmund Spenser

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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Love Marriage Rage Sleep Suffering Wake Weakness
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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Flesh Live Man Spirit Teaching Yourself
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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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
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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Fall Lost Oneself Place
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Body Easy Gold Heart Man Mindset World
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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Lesson Love Teaching
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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Color Earth Flower Glory Goodness Herself Love Spring
For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Easy Man Willing
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
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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Breathe Fair Light Play Soft Spirit Sweet

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.

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