1590s
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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Against my soul's pure truth why labor you To make it wander in an unknown field?
It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd, To think their dolour others have endur'd.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy.
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eyes, Steal me awhile from mine own company.