Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, ‘Gainst whom the world could not hold argument. Persuade my heart to this false perjury? Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. A woman I forswore; but I will prove, Thou being…
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, That like two spirits do suggest me still; My better angel is a man right fair, My worser spirit a woman colour’d ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil…
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor’d youth, Unskilful in the world’s false forgeries, Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me…
Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly. After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live now Under the blossom that…
Marcellus to Horatio and Bernardo, after seeing the Ghost, Some say that ever gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,…
O never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify: As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie; That is my home of love; if…
I. IT was a lording’s daughter, the fairest one of three, That liked of her master as well as well might be, Till looking on an Englishman, the fair’st that eye could see, Her fancy fell a-turning. Long was the…
Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under, Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss; Who, therefore angry, seems to part in sunder, Swelling on either side to want his bliss; Between whose hills her head entombed is; Where like…
And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier’s a man; A life’s but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink.
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