In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
EDMUND SPENSERWoe 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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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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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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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