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The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

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Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

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Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

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

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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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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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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

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Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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