Poems and Dramas of Fulke Greville First Lord Brooke: Edited with introductions and notes by Geoffrey Bullough |
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Sonnet XCIV
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Sonnet XCIV
[Men, that delight to multiply desire]
Men, that delight to multiply desire,
Like tellers are that take coyne but to pay,
Still tempted to be false, with little hire,
Blacke hands except, which they would haue away:
For, where power wisely Audits her estate,
The Exchequer Mens best recompense is hate.
Like tellers are that take coyne but to pay,
Still tempted to be false, with little hire,
Blacke hands except, which they would haue away:
For, where power wisely Audits her estate,
The Exchequer Mens best recompense is hate.
The little Maide that weareth out the day,
To gather flow'rs still couetous of more,
At night when she with her desire would play,
And let her pleasure wanton in her store,
Discernes the first laid vnderneath the last,
Wither'd, and so is all that we haue past:
To gather flow'rs still couetous of more,
At night when she with her desire would play,
And let her pleasure wanton in her store,
Discernes the first laid vnderneath the last,
Wither'd, and so is all that we haue past:
Fixe then on good desires, and if you finde
Ambitious dreames or feares of ouer-thwart;
Changes, temptations, bloomes of earthly minde,
Yet waue not, since earth change, hath change of smart.
For lest Man should thinke flesh a seat of blisse,
God workes that his ioy mixt with sorrow is.
Ambitious dreames or feares of ouer-thwart;
Changes, temptations, bloomes of earthly minde,
Yet waue not, since earth change, hath change of smart.
For lest Man should thinke flesh a seat of blisse,
God workes that his ioy mixt with sorrow is.
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