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See how Aurora throws her fair
Fresh-quilted colours through the air.
Hesperides (1648)
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore,
Ships have been drown'd where late they danc'd before.
Hesperides (1648)
I saw a fly within a bead
Of amber cleanly burièd;
The urn was little, but the room
More rich than Cleopatra's tomb.
Hesperides (1648)
Thus times do shift; each thing his turn does hold:
New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Hesperides (1648)
When the rose reigns, and locks with ointments shine,
Let rigid Cato read these lines of mine.
Hesperides (1648)
Dead falls the cause if once the hand be mute;
But let that speak, the client gets the suit.
Hesperides (1648)
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.
Hesperides (1648)
Only a little more
I have to write,
Then I'll give o'er,
And bid the world good-night.
Hesperides (1648)
Let's live with that small pittance that we have;
Who covets more, is evermore a slave.
Hesperides (1648)
He who has suffered shipwreck fears to sail
Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
Hesperides (1648)
The stars of the night
Will lend thee their light
Like tapers clear without number.
Hesperides (1648)
To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside;
Who fears to ask doth teach to be deny'd.
Hesperides (1648)
But thou liv'st fearless; and thy face ne'er shows
Fortune when she comes or goes.
Hesperides (1648)
Hell is no other but a soundless pit,
Where no one beam of comfort peeps in it.
Hesperides (1648)
None pities him that's in the snare,
And, warned before, would not beware.
Hesperides (1648)
In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse.
Hesperides (1648)
In things a moderation keep:
Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep.
Hesperides (1648)
The readiness of doing doth express
No other but the doer's willingness.
Hesperides (1648)
Who with a little cannot be content,
Endures an everlasting punishment.
Hesperides (1648)