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A thousand doltish geese we might have spared,
A thousand witless heads death might have found,
A taken them for whom no man had cared,
And laid them low in deep oblivious ground:
But fortune favors fool, as old men say,
And lets them live, and takes the wise away.

— Barnabe Googe Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes (1563)

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The oftener seen, the more I lust,
The more I lust, the more I smart,
The more I smart, the more I trust,
The more I trust, the heavier heart,
The heavy heart breeds mine unrest;
Thy absence, therefore, like I best.

Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes (1563)

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