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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

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
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
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
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Divine Hate Heart Jealous Joy Love Thinking
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
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Herself Justice Right Truth Win
For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Heart Mindset Misery World
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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Bright Eternity Fate Forever Heaven Ourselves

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

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