To his book's end this last line he'd have placed:--
Jocund his Muse was, but his Life was chaste.
(Upon Himself)
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When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old time is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying.
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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
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And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head
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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
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