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The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
Affection is a coal that must be cool'd;
Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
Their copious stories, oftentimes begun,
End without audience, and are never done.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
The heart hath treble wrong
When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light,
Shone like the moon in water seen by night.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
His art with nature's workmanship at strife,
As if the dead the living should exceed.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth,
Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array
He cheers the morn, and all the earth relieveth;
And as the bright sun glorifies the sky,
So is her face illumin'd with her eye.
Venus and Adonis (1593)