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She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her read more
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only
knew the pleasures which surround you!
Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only
knew the pleasures which surround you!
He that endures is not overcome.
He that endures is not overcome.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well
mended.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well
mended.
Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far read more
And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went,
In that new world that is the old.
