A SWEET NOSEGAY, OR PLEASANT POESY, CONTAINING A HUNDRED AND TEN PHILOSOPHICAL FLOWERS - Joseph Warren Beach Poems

 
 

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A SWEET NOSEGAY, OR PLEASANT POESY, CONTAINING A HUNDRED AND TEN PHILOSOPHICAL FLOWERS

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36

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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52

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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63

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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76

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

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97

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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106

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

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108

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.