All flesh doth frailty breed!
EDMUND SPENSERHer angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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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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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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