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| The expense of spirit in a waste of shame | 1 |
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| Is lust in action: and till action, lust |
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| Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame, |
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| Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; |
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| Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight; | 5 |
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| Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, |
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| Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, |
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| On purpose laid to make the taker mad: |
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| Mad in pursuit and in possession so; |
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| Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme; | 10 |
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| A bliss in proof,—and prov'd, a very woe; |
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| Before, a joy propos'd; behind a dream. |
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 All this the world well knows; yet none knows well |
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| To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. |
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