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BEN JONSON  That liking, and approach so one the t'other Till either grew a portion of the other: Each stylèd by his end The copy of his friend. You lived to be the great surnames And titles by which all made claims Unto the Virtue—nothing perfect done But as a CARY or a MORISON.

And such the force the fair example had As they that saw The good, and durst not practise it, were glad That such a law Was left yet to mankind, Where they might read and find indeed was written, not in words, And with the heart, not pen, Of two so early men, Whose lines her rules were and records: Who, ere the first down bloomèd on the chin, Had sow'd these fruits, and got the harvest in.

JOHN DONNE

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TAY, O sweet, and do not rise! The light that shines comes from thine eyes; The day breaks not: it is my heart, Because that you and I must part. Stay! or else my joys will die And perish in their infancy.

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