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A mind content both crown and kingdom is. - [Contentment] Her lips are roses over-washed with dew. - [Lips] Her locks are plighted like the fleece of wool That Jason and his Grecian mates achiev'd, As pure as gold, yet not from gold deriv'd; As full of sweets as sweet of sweets is full. - [Hair] -----No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought. - [Jealousy] For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds. - A Maiden's Dream [Deeds] He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare; He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer, Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care; His wine and beere to strangers were not spare, And yet beside to all that hunger greved, His gates were open, and they were there relived. - A Maiden's Dream (l. 232) [Hospitality] Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love. - Alcida--Verses Written under a Carving of Cupid Blowing Bladders in the Air [Love] A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow. - Alphonso, King of Arragon (act I) [Mind] Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. - Card of Fancie [Beggary] Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought. - Jealousy [Jealousy] I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. - Looking-Glass for London and England [God] Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. - Perimedes the Blacksmith [Fate : Gods] On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining. - Philomela, a sonnet [Eyes] Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss. - Song--Farewell to Folly [Contentment] Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair. - Sonnet [Woe] Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. - Worth of Wit [Courage]
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