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Idleness induces caprice.
Idleness induces caprice.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
No love is foule, nor prison fair.
No love is foule, nor prison fair.
The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be read more
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
O, a kiss
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
Now, by the jealous queen of read more
O, a kiss
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
I carried from thee dear; and my true lip
Hath virgined it e'er since.
The great would have none great and the little all little.
The great would have none great and the little all little.