High state, the bed is where misfortune lies, Mars most unf… - Edward Fairfax

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High state, the bed is where misfortune lies,
Mars most unfriendly, when most kind he seems,
Who climbeth high, on earth he hardest lights,
And lowest falls attend the highest flights.

Edward Fairfax

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Edward Fairfax (1580? – 27 January 1635) was an English translator.

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James Thomson John Dryden Torquato Tasso John Milton Ludovico Ariosto

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Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile,
They will, they will not, fools that on them trust,
For in their speech is death, hell in their smile.

They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.

A narrow room our glory vain upties,
A little circle doth our pride contain,
Earth like an isle amid the water lies,
Which sea sometime is called, sometime the main,
Yet naught therein responds a name so great,
It's but a lake, a pond, a marish strait.

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