Date: 1609
"But then begins a journey in my head / To work my mind, when body's work's expired"
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Date: 1609
"For then my thoughts (from far where I abide) / Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee"
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Date: 1609
"Save that my soul's imaginary sight / Presents thy shadow to my sightless view"
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Date: 1609
"The vacant leaues thy mindes imprint will beare, / And of this booke, this learning maist thou taste."
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Date: 1609
"Looke what thy memorie cannot containe, / Commit to these waste blacks, and thou shalt finde / Those children nurst, deliuerd from thy braine, / To take a new acquaintance of thy minde."
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Date: 1610
"Man is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be / Wisdom makes him an ark where all agree."
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Date: 1610
Man may keep himself "empaled" to keep animals out
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Date: 1610
Souls may "by our first touch, take in / The poisonous tincture of original sin"
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Date: 1610
Man "into himself can draw / All, all his faith can swallow, or reason chaw ... All the round world, to man is but a pill."
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Date: 1610
"Man is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be, / Wisdom makes him an ark where all agree; / The fool, in whom these beasts do live at jar, / Is sport to others and a theatre, / Nor 'scapes he so, but is himself their prey; / All which was man in him is eat away, / And now his beasts on one another ...
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