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When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]
I know not which way to turn. [I am in a quandary.]
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
The wife is the key of the house.
The wife is the key of the house.
The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
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The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
It is success that colours all in life,
Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.
It is success that colours all in life,
Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.
