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Page xii
... hath more need of good examples than precepts . " On the third day after he was made rector , he exchanged his sword and gay clothing for a canonical habit , and returning to Bainton , where his wife's relations resided , he saluted his ...
... hath more need of good examples than precepts . " On the third day after he was made rector , he exchanged his sword and gay clothing for a canonical habit , and returning to Bainton , where his wife's relations resided , he saluted his ...
Page xxiv
... hath private amity , And both with moons and tides . " " His eyes dismount the highest star : He is in little all the sphere . Herbs gladly cure our flesh , because that they Find their acquaintance there . ” " Each thing is full of ...
... hath private amity , And both with moons and tides . " " His eyes dismount the highest star : He is in little all the sphere . Herbs gladly cure our flesh , because that they Find their acquaintance there . ” " Each thing is full of ...
Page xxxi
... hath bounds and stays . Continence hath his joy : weigh both ; and so If rottenness have more , let heaven go . If God had laid all common , certainly Man would have been th ' encloser ; but since now God hath impaled us , on the ...
... hath bounds and stays . Continence hath his joy : weigh both ; and so If rottenness have more , let heaven go . If God had laid all common , certainly Man would have been th ' encloser ; but since now God hath impaled us , on the ...
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... hath no excuse . Lust and wine plead a pleasure , avarice gain : But the cheap swearer through his open sluice Lets his soul run for nought , as little fearing : Were I an Epicure , I could bate swearing . When thou dost tell another's ...
... hath no excuse . Lust and wine plead a pleasure , avarice gain : But the cheap swearer through his open sluice Lets his soul run for nought , as little fearing : Were I an Epicure , I could bate swearing . When thou dost tell another's ...
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... hath blurr'd ; Redeem truth from his jaws if Soldier , : Chase brave employments with a naked sword Throughout the world . Fool not ; for all may have , If they dare try , a glorious life , or grave . O England ! full of sin , but most ...
... hath blurr'd ; Redeem truth from his jaws if Soldier , : Chase brave employments with a naked sword Throughout the world . Fool not ; for all may have , If they dare try , a glorious life , or grave . O England ! full of sin , but most ...
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Page xiii - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Page xxxi - THOU, whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Page 195 - Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
Page 160 - All wasted ? Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands. Recover all thy sigh-blown age On double pleasures: leave thy cold dispute Of what is fit and not; forsake thy cage, Thy rope of sands, Which...
Page xxiv - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Page 167 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Page vi - Ireland, who was then chief master of that school ; where the beauties of his pretty behaviour and wit shined and became so eminent and lovely in this his innocent age, that he seemed to be marked out for piety, and to become the care of Heaven, and of a particular good angel to guard and guide him.
Page 88 - My stuff is flesh, not brass; my senses live, And grumble oft that they have more in me Than he that curbs them, being but one to five— Yet I love thee.
Page 18 - Sum up at night what thou hast done by day ; And in the morning, what thou hast to do. Dress and undress thy soul ; mark the decay And growth of it. If, with thy watch, that too Be down, then wind up both. Since we shall be Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
Page 37 - With Thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day Thy victories : Then shall the fall further the flight in me.