For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
EDMUND SPENSERI 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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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