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No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
The heart of kings is unsearchable.
The heart of kings is unsearchable.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
There is no evil without its compensation.
There is no evil without its compensation.
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze,
we long for it jealously.
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze,
we long for it jealously.
Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
