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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.

Edmund Spenser

All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
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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Content Heart Love Queen Smile Yourself
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Himself Home Hypocrisy True
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Burn Cruelty Death Hate Heart Oneself Revenge Treason
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Call Man Myself Right Virtue Wrong
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Creature Enjoyment Fall Liberty
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Choice Freedom Goodness Praise Sick Willing
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Angry Late Repent
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
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
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Evening Fade Fresh Man Morning Taste

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