And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteeme, How I him loved, and love with all my might, So thought I eke of him, and thinke I thought aright.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
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Happy ye leaues when as those lilly hands,
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lyke captiues trembling at the victors sight.
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So now they have made our English tongue a gallimaufry or hodgepodge of all other speeches.
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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.
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