A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Poesy, Containing a Hundred and Ten Philosophical Flowers

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Those strokes which mates in mirth do give do seem to be but light,Although sometime they leave a sign seems grievous to the sight.

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He that is void of any friend, him company to keep,Walks in a world of wilderness, full fraught with dangers deep.

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Each lover knoweth what he likes and what he doth desire,But seld, or never, doth he know what thing he should require.

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Affection fond deceives the wise and love makes men such noddiesThat to their selves they seem as dead yet live in other bodies.

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Ask nothing of thy neighbour that thou wouldst not let him have:Nor say him nay of that which thou wouldst get if thou didst crave.

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Two eyes, two ears, and but one tongue Dame Nature hath us framedThat we might see and hear much more than should with tongue be named.

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Seek not each man to please, for that is more than God bids do:Please thou the best, and neuer care, what wicked say thereto.

© Isabella Whitney