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Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses
On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.
I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
