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What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!
Philip Massinger
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Philip Massinger
Age: 57 †
Born: 1583
Born: January 1
Died: 1640
Died: January 1
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Salisbury
England
Philip Massinger
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Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance-- Be often kissed and tasted.
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Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
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Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
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Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
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Be wise soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise.
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My dancing days are past.
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Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
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