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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

Edmund Spenser

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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Beautiful Flower Forest Growth Herself Love Relationship Rose
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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Love Reward
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
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
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
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Love Sweet Voice
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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Action Death Live Man Thinking Wisdom Word
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
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
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
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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Angel Desire Fashion Heart Leadership Stop Talk Teaching
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner

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