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He is as cowardly
Who longer fears to live, as he who fears to die.
The Purple Island (1633)
In Heaven they scorned to serve, so now in Hell they reign.
The Purple Island (1633)
Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Sicelides (1614)
Poorly (poor man) he lived; poorly (poor man) he died.
The Purple Island (1633)
Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.
The Purple Island (1633)
Love is like linen; often changed, the sweeter.
Sicelides (1614)
Only in love they happy prove
Who love what most deserves their love.
Sicelides (1614)
His life is neither tossed in boisterous seas
Of troublous world, nor lost in slothful ease.
The Purple Island (1633)
Ah, Foole! faint heart faire lady n'ere could win.
When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises;
Somewhat the deed, but more the means, he raises:
So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
The Purple Island (1633)
His little son into his bosom creeps,
The lively picture of his father’s face.
The Purple Island (1633)
Love’s tongue is in the eyes.
Piscatory Eclogues (1633)
Drop, drop, slow tears,
And bathe those beauteous feet,
Which brought from Heaven
The news and Prince of Peace.
Poetical Miscellanies (1633)
In your deep floods
Drown all my faults and fears;
Not let His eye
See sin, but through my tears.
Poetical Miscellanies (1633)
The way to God is by ourselves.
The Purple Island (1633)
Thus fell that prince of darkness, once a bright
And shining star [...]:
To be in Heaven the second he disdains;
So now the first in Hell and flames he reigns,
Crowned once with joy and light: crowned now with fire and pains.
Locusts (1627)
Silence best speaks the mind.
Piscatorie Eclogues (1633)
The coward’s weapon, poison.
Sicelides (1614)
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Disputed Britain's Ida (1628)