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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
Such pains they take to look pretty.
Such pains they take to look pretty.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my
neighbour white.
I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my
neighbour white.
A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy read more
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
