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Death is a port whereby we pass to joy,
Life is a lake that drowneth all in payn.

— Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey England's Parnassus (1600)

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The dint of swords from kisses seemèd strange.

And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!

Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest:
Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain;
And virtue sank the deeper in his breast:
Such profit he by envy could obtain.

But by and by, the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang, that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine, with bondage and restraint:
And with remembrance of the greater grief,
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

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