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Plough not the seas, sow not the sands, Leave off your idle pain; Seek other mistress for your minds, Love's service is in vain.
To rise by others' fall I deem a losing gain; All states with others' ruins built To ruin run amain.
Not Solomon, for all his wit, Nor Samson, though he were so strong, No king nor person ever yet Could 'scape, but Death laid him along.
Behold a silly tender babe, In freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies; Alas! a piteous sight.
Shun delays, they breed remorse; Take thy time while time is lent thee; Creeping snails have weakest force, Fly their fault lest thou repent thee. Good is best when soonest wrought, Linger’d labours come to nought.