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For, though her eyes be small, her mouth is great,Though they be ivory, yet her teeth be jet,Though they be dim, yet she is light enough,And though her harsh hair fall, her skin is rough;What though her cheeks be yellow, her hair’s red;Give her thine, and she hath a maidenhead.These things are beauty’s elements, where…
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
Young beauties force our love, and that’s a rape,This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.If ’twere a shame to love, here ’twere no shame;Affection here takes reverence’s name.Were her first years the golden age? That’s true,But now she’s gold oft tried and ever new.That was her torrid and inflaming time,This is her tolerable tropic…
Hark, news, O envy ; thou shalt hear descried
To vomit gall in slander, swell her veinsWith calumny, that hell itself disdains,Is her continual practice ; does her best,To tear opinion e’en out of the breastOf dearest friends, and—which is worse than vile—Sticks jealousy in wedlock ; her own childScapes not the showers of envy. To repeatThe monstrous fashions how, were alive to eatDeare…
Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side,
For I have sinned, and sinned, and only heWho could do no iniquity hath died:But by my death can not be satisfiedMy sins, which pass the Jews’ impiety:They killed once an inglorious man, but ICrucify him daily, being now glorified.Oh let me, then, his strange love still admire:Kings pardon, but he bore our punishment.And Jacob…
ADOPTED in God’s family and so
The Cross—my seal at baptism—spread belowDoes, by that form, into an Anchor grow.Crosses grow Anchors ; bear, as thou shouldest doThy Cross, and that Cross grows an Anchor too.But He that makes our Crosses Anchors thus,Is Christ, who there is crucified for us.Yet may I, with this, my first serpents hold ;God gives new blessings,…