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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

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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Appearance Bed Bright Flame Light Morning Stars
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Inspirational Love Power
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
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Love One Liner Rose Time
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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Compare Death Help Home Sleep
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
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
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
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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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beautiful Flower Forest Growth Herself Love Relationship Rose
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Attraction Comfortable Eyes Grace Kind Sweet Thinking
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

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

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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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