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All for love, and nothing for reward.

Edmund Spenser

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  But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

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  My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?

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  The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

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  Fretting grief the enemy of life.

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  Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.

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  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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  Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

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  Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.

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  For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

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  The noblest mind the best contentment has.

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  What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

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  To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

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  Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.

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  But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

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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

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  She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.

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  Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

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  So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

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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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  Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

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  Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

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  So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.

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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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  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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  Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

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  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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  Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

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