imagenes

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  time

  Since time, and his predestinated end

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  hopeful

  Abridged the circuit of his hopeful days

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  virtue

  Whiles both his youth and virtue did intend

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  endeavors

  The good endeavors of deserving praise

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  monument

  What memorable monument can last

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  name

  Whereon to build his never-blemished name

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  life was graced

  But his own worth, wherein his life was graced

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  the same

  Sith as that ever he maintained the same?

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  oblivion

  Oblivion in the darkest day to come

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  sin shall tread

  When sin shall tread on merit in the dust

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  lamentable tomb

  Cannot rase out the lamentable tomb

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  short-lived deserts

  Of his short-lived deserts; but still they must

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  hearts and memories

  Even in the hearts and memories of men

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  respect

  Claim fit respect, that they, in every limb

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  comfort

  Remembering what he was, with comfort then

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  pattern

  May pattern out one truly good, by him

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  truly good

  For he was truly good, if honest care

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  harmless conversation

  Of harmless conversation may commend

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  recompensed

  Ill recompensed only in his end

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  tongue

  Nor can the tongue of him who loved him least

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  superlative

  To one superlative above the rest

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  steady faith

  Of many men in steady faith reprove

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  constant temper

  His constant temper, in the equal weight

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  thankfulness

  Of thankfulness and kindness: Truth doth leave

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  proof

  Sufficient proof, he was in every right

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  thankful

  As kind to give, as thankful to receive.

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  curious eye

  The curious eye of a quick-brained survey

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  scantly find

  Could scantly find a mote amidst the sun

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  too-shortened days

  Of his too-shortened days, or make a prey

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  faulty errors

  Of any faulty errors he had done

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  spleenful sense

  Not that he was above the spleenful sense

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  spite of malice

  And spite of malice, but for that he had

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  innocence

  Warrant enough in his own innocence

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  nature

  Against the sting of some in nature bad

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  absolutely blest

  Yet who is he so absolutely blest

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  mortal frame

  That lives encompassed in a mortal frame