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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall!
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Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!
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What though the sea with waves continual Doe eat the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tide unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.
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As when in Cymbrian plaine
An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting,
Doe for the milky mothers want complaine,
And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
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O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
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Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
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Like as a fearful partridge, that is fled From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare, And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare, Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye, With greedy jaws her ready for to teare.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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January 13, 1599
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