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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

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Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

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To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

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Ride the air In whirlwind.

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

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Believe and be confirmed.

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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

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All hell broke loose.

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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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Freely we serve, because freely we love.

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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