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No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Oft stumbles at a straw.

For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man’s mind doth flow.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Greatest god below the sky.

O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty’s love.

Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.

The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway.

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.

Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love’s praise.

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

All flesh doth frailty breed!

Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

There is no disputing about taste.

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

Together linkt with adamantine chains.

Discord harder is to end then to begin.

Fretting grief the enemy of life.

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.

Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.

Sluggish idleness – the nurse of sin.

All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

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