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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.

Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain Pleasure
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Absence Cry Friendship Herself Loss
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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Compare Death Help Home Sleep
For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Eyes Joy Missing Night
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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Appearance Bed Bright Flame Light Morning Stars
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Bad Fall Goodness Himself Return Worst
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Angel Eyes Face Greatness Place Sunshine
The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Herself Imitation Man Nature Truth
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
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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Creation Form Herself Judgement Knowledge Nature Operation World
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Appearance Beautiful Man Philosophy
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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Content Heart Love Queen Smile Yourself
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Advice Lost Philosophy

Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.

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