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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...summer brave, Age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, Age's breath is short; 10 Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, Age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee, 15 Youth, I do adore thee; O, my love, my love is young! Age, I do defy thee; O sweet shepherd, hie thee, For methinks thou stay'st too long! 30 xni Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, A shining gloss, that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass, that's broken presently: A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, 5 Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour. And as goods lost are seld or never found, As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh, As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground, As broken glass no cement can redress, 10 So beauty blemish'd once, for ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. xiii. Perhaps by the author of xiii. presently, at the present, x. Cf. 1. 6. vaded, faded, as in x. the instant, instantly, (w) (b) xiii. 7 Kid, seldom, (r) xiv, xv. Probably not Shake-xiv. nill, will not. (b) Good night, good rest. Ah, neither be my share! She bade good night, that kept my rest away: And daff'd me to a cabin hangM with care, To descant on the doubts of my decay. Farewell, quoth she, and come again to-morrow; 5 Fare well I could not, for I supp'd with sorrow. Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile, In scorn or friendship, nill I construe whether: T may be, she joy'd to jest at my exile, T may be, again to make me wander thither: 10 Wander, a word for shadows like myself, As take the pain, but cannot pluck the pelf. xv Lord, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east! My heart doth charge the watch; the morning rise Doth cite each moving sense from...

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