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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

Edmund Spenser

But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
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
Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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Freedom Sin Wasted Time
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Absence Cry Friendship Herself Loss
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
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 easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Easy Man Willing
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
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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Myself Promise Reason Season Time
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
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
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
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

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