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.
EDMUND SPENSERFresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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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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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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