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

Edmund Spenser

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
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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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
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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Day Fear Feed Goodness Hell Hope Night Sorrow Speed Unknown Wasted
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Advice Bite Hard Ocean
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Grace Profit Rule
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
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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Creature Enemy God Grace Love Man Mercy Service Wickedness
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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Curse Feed Happiness Heart Jealous Lose Misery
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
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Hard Horse Old Teaching
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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Love Marriage Rage Sleep Suffering Wake Weakness
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

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

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