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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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And I replied, ‘My Lord.’<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Collar’ (1633)<br />

O that thou shouldst give dust a tongue<br />

To cry to thee,<br />

And then not hear it crying!<br />

‘Denial’ (1633) l. 16<br />

Love is swift <strong>of</strong> foot;<br />

Love’s a man <strong>of</strong> war,<br />

And can shoot,<br />

And can hit from far.<br />

‘Discipline’ (1633)<br />

I got me flowers to strew Thy way;<br />

I got me boughs <strong>of</strong>f many a tree:<br />

But Thou wast up by break <strong>of</strong> day,<br />

And brought’st Thy sweets along with <strong>The</strong>e.<br />

‘Easter’ (1633)<br />

Teach me, my God and King,<br />

In all things <strong>The</strong>e to see,<br />

And what I do in any thing<br />

To do it as for <strong>The</strong>e.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Elixir’ (1633)<br />

A man that looks on glass,<br />

On it may stay his eye;<br />

Or if he pleaseth, through it pass,<br />

And then the heaven espy.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Elixir’ (1633)<br />

A servant with this clause<br />

Makes drudgery divine:<br />

Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws<br />

Makes that and th’ action fine.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Elixir’ (1633)<br />

Oh that I were an orange-tree,<br />

That busy plant!<br />

<strong>The</strong>n I should ever laden be,<br />

And never want<br />

Some fruit for Him that dressed me.<br />

‘Employment: He that is weary, let him sit’ (1633)<br />

Who would have thought my shrivelled heart<br />

Could have recovered greenness?<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Flower’ (1633)

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