Maxioms by Thomas Middleton
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
