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When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me, Guesse I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed. - Hesperides--Divination by a Daffadill [Daffodils] If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines. - Hesperides--No Paines, No Gaines [Labor] Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. - Hesperides--Penitence [Repentance] The readinesse of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse. - Hesperides--Readinesse [Will] Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. - Hesperides--Seeke and Finde [Action : Investigation : Perseverance] We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses. - Hesperides--The Eyes Before the Ears [Eyes] In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part Without the sweet concurrence of the heart. - Hesperides--The Heart [Prayer] Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun. - Hesperides--To Anthea [Kisses : Love] No marigolds yet closed are, No shadows great appeare. - Hesperides--To Daisies--Not to Shut so Soone [Marigolds] Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never, But, like a laurell, to grow green forever. - Hesperides--To His Booke [Books] Small griefs find tongues: full casques are ever found To give, if any, yet but little sound, Deep waters noyselesse are; and this we know, That chiding streams betray small depth below. - Hesperides--To His Mistresse Objecting to Him Neither Toying or Talking [Silence] No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love. - Hesperides--To Silvia [Love] Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. - Hesperides-Temptations [Temptation] 'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne. - Kings and Tyrants [Tyrants] You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long. - Love me Little, Love me Long [Love] For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes. - Mad Nan's Song [Bees] Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom. - Money Gets the Mastery [Money : Proverbs] To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside; Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd. - No Bashfulnesse in Begging [Beggary] Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. - Noble Numbers--Hell [Hell] Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine. - Ode for Ben Jonson [Eating] Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution. - Regression Spoils Resolution [Resolution] What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before. - Safety on the Shore [Navigation] When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. - Sorrows Succeed [Woe] I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. - The Amber Bead [Flies] Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave. - The Covetous Still Captive [Contentment] Displaying page 3 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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