...their faces, Others but Stewarts of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Tho' to itself it only live and die; But if that flower...their deeds, Lilies, that fester, smell far worse than weeds. COMPLAINT FOK HIS LOVER'S ABSENCE. That tongue that tells the story of thy days, (Making lascivious...

...their faces. Others but stewards of their excellence, The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Tho' to itself it only live and die ; But if that flower...their deeds ; Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth...

...Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow, If thy tweet virtue answer not thy show ! SONNET XCIV. THEY that bave power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the...dignity : For sweetest things turn sourest by their deed* ; Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds. SONNET XCV. How sweet anil lovely dost thou...

...their faces. Others but stewards of their excellence, The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Tho' to itself it only live and die ; But if that flower...their deeds ; Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth...

...temptation slow; They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expence ; They are the lords and owners of their faces', Others...their deeds: Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds 7. xcv. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,...

...slow; , They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, And husband nature's riches from expencr ; They arc the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards...their deeds ; Lilies that fester, smell far worse than wecdi. , xcv. How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shamo Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,...

...addressed to old Queen Elizabeth ! I give them for their excellence, and in illustration. " The summer flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it...their deeds ; Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds. " How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,...

...stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only li ve and die ; But if that flower with base infection meet,...their deeds ; Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds. Poems. 253 " Prediction. Against ill chances, men are ever merry; But heaviness foreruns the...

...merry 1 which their keepers! call A lightning before death. 35— v. 3. 252 The influence of infection. They that have power to hurt and will do none, That...infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity : * Traiton. f James i. 13, 14. { Attendanta. For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds ; Lilies...

...Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to jtself it only live and die; But if that flower with base...sourest by their deeds ; Lilies that fester, smell far worso than weeds. /' 253 Prediction. Against ill chances, men are ever merry ; But heaviness foreruns...