For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
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An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, line 132 (1596).Edmund Spenser
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Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move?
Is this the justice which on Earth we find?
Is this that firm decree which all doth bind?
Are these your influences, Powers above?William Drummond
Full little knowest thou that hast not tride,
What hell it is in suing long to bide:
To loose good dayes, that might be better spent;
To wast 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.
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To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares;
To eate thy heart through comfortlesse dispaires; 13
To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne,
To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne.
Unhappie wight, borne to desastrous end,
That doth his life in so long tendance spend!Edmund Spenser
For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
It is in cloistre or in scole.William Langland
Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbor give
To more virtue than doth live.Ben Jonson
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.George Chapman
Spenser, Edmund
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