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The breath of popular applause. - [Fame] The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play. - [Theatre] The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun. - [Sun] The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number! - [Stars] There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die. - ascribed to, in the "Scottish Student's Song-Book" [Love] Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. - [Proverbs] 'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. - [God] 'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. - [Proverbs] Upon her cheeks she wept, and from those showers Sprang up a sweet nativity of flowers. - [Tears] When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write. - [Love] Who covets more is evermore a slave. - [Covetousness] Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. - [Discontent] Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. - Abstinence [Disease] Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings. - Caution in Councell [Advice : Speech] Thus times do shift; each thing his turne does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. - Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve [Time] 'Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. - Content not Cates [Eating] Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained its noone. . . . . We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you or anything. - Daffadills [Daffodils] A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. - Delight in Disorder [Shoemaking] A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse. - Delight in Disorder [Apparel] A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. - Delight in Disorder [Apparel] I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes. - Hesperides [Spring] Roses at first were white. 'Till they co'd not agree, Whether my Sappho's breast Or they more white sho'd be. - Hesperides, found in Dodd's "Epigrammatists" [Roses] Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. - Hesperides (208) [Time] It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. - Hesperides (340) [End] What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. - Hesperides--A Kiss [Kisses] Displaying page 2 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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