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Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing so hard but search will find it out. - [Perseverance] I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more. - [Love] I would not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. - [Honor] Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. - Inscription on Title-page of Posthumous Poems [Glory] Oh, could you view the melodie Of ev'ry grace, And musick of her face, You'd drop a teare, Seeing more harmonie In her bright eye, Then now you heare. - Orpheus to Beasts [Beauty] Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace, And music of her face, You'd drop a tear, Seeing more harmony In her bright eye, Than now you hear. - Orpheus to Beasts (st. 2) [Face] When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames. - To Althea from Prison (II) [Wine and Spirits] When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. - To Althea, from Prison [Fish : Wine and Spirits] Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. - To Althea, from Prison (IV) [Prison] Fishes that tipple in the deepe, Know no such liberty. - To Althea, from Prison (st. 2) [Fish] Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. . . . . Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore:-- I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. - To Lucasta, on going to the Wars [Love]
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