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HOPE
For greater Numbers have been lost by Hopes,
Then all the Magazins of Daggers, Ropes:
And other Amunitions of Despaire,
Were ever able to Dispatch, by Feare.
Then all the Magazins of Daggers, Ropes:
And other Amunitions of Despaire,
Were ever able to Dispatch, by Feare.
[Fears]
Do better offices to Human Nature
Then Hopes, that only humor us, and Flatter,
That all our Future Happiness Fore-stalls,
And Runs us out of it, before it Falls:
When all our Expectations are alloyd
And thrown away, before they are Injoyd:
While nothing our Fælicity's Indear's
Like that which falls among our Doubts, and Fears,
And in the miserablest of distress,
Improv's Attempts as Desprate, with success.
Succes that owns, and Justifys all Quarrels;
And vindicates Deserts of Hempe, with Lawrells.
Or but miscarry[i]ng in the Bold Attempt
Turnes wreaths of Lawrell back again, to Hemp.
Do better offices to Human Nature
Then Hopes, that only humor us, and Flatter,
That all our Future Happiness Fore-stalls,
And Runs us out of it, before it Falls:
When all our Expectations are alloyd
And thrown away, before they are Injoyd:
While nothing our Fælicity's Indear's
Like that which falls among our Doubts, and Fears,
And in the miserablest of distress,
Improv's Attempts as Desprate, with success.
Succes that owns, and Justifys all Quarrels;
And vindicates Deserts of Hempe, with Lawrells.
Or but miscarry[i]ng in the Bold Attempt
Turnes wreaths of Lawrell back again, to Hemp.
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