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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
'Tis very certain the desire of life
Prolongs it.
'Tis very certain the desire of life
Prolongs it.
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.
To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the
Altar.
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the
Altar.
He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.
He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
