H. His Deuises for his owne exercise, and his Friends pleasure [by Thomas Howell] |
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In loue smale iarres, sometime breede best content.
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In loue smale iarres, sometime breede best content.
What
state more sweete, more pleasant or more hie,
Then loues delight, where hartes doe ioyntly ioye?
If vyle suspect, feare and ielosie,
With gawling grudge did not the same annoy.
Yet where this sowre, with sweete somedeale doth blende,
Loues perfection oft it doth amende.
Then loues delight, where hartes doe ioyntly ioye?
If vyle suspect, feare and ielosie,
With gawling grudge did not the same annoy.
Yet where this sowre, with sweete somedeale doth blende,
Loues perfection oft it doth amende.
For thirst the water sauourie makes to seeme,
And after fasting, meate is had in price:
He knowes not peace, nor can thereof esteeme,
That in the warres hath neuer broke the Ice.
Hope is reuiude, and shakes of sorrowes past,
When seruice long doth reape rewarde at last.
And after fasting, meate is had in price:
He knowes not peace, nor can thereof esteeme,
That in the warres hath neuer broke the Ice.
Hope is reuiude, and shakes of sorrowes past,
When seruice long doth reape rewarde at last.
Distaunce of Friends maye suffred be with ease,
When safe returne exiles eche former feare:
The farther of, the more doth meeting please,
Things hardly had, obtaynde, are holden deere.
Despayre not then, though eyes debarred bee,
From that fayre fight, the hart doth howerly see.
When safe returne exiles eche former feare:
The farther of, the more doth meeting please,
Things hardly had, obtaynde, are holden deere.
Despayre not then, though eyes debarred bee,
From that fayre fight, the hart doth howerly see.
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