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Here are no false entrapping baits, To hasten too, too hasty fates; Unless it be The fond credulity Of silly fish, which, worldling like, still look Upon the bait, but never on the hook: Nor envy, unless among The birds, for prize of their sweet song.
Here are no false entrapping baits, To hasten too, too hasty fates; Unless it be The fond credulity Of silly fish, which, worldling like, still look Upon the bait, but never on the hook: Nor envy, unless among The birds, for prize of their sweet song.
Approximate author period: c. 1585 AD · renaissance
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- Sir Walter Raleigh
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- Approximate author period: c. 1585 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 198 · printed citation: Sir Walter Raleigh · subject: ENVY
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