Base affections fall, when virtue riseth. - Edward Fairfax

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Chance in uncertain, fortune double faced,

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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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My mind, Time's enemy, Oblivion's foe,
Disposer true of each noteworthy thing.

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