Abraham Cowley: Well

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“If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;
God to their cares and fears will set no bound.
What would content you? Who can tell?
Ye fear so much to lose what you have got
As if ye liked it well.
Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.”

Abraham Cowley

“Of Greatness”

God , Pleasure , Fear

“Well did he know how Palms by oppression speed,
Victorious, and the Victors sacred Meed!
The Burden lifts them higher. Well did he know,
How a tame stream does wild and dangerous grow
By unjust force; he now with wanton play,
Kisses the smiling Banks, and glides
But his known Channel stopt, begins to roare,
And swell with rage, and buffet the dull shore.
His mutinous waters hurry to the War,
And Troops of Waves come rolling from afar.
Then scorns he such weak stops to his free source,
And overruns the neighboring fields with violent course.”

Abraham Cowley

Book I, lines 49-60
Davideis (1656)

War , Smile , Kiss , Water

“Thus each extream to equal danger tends,
Plenty as well as Want can separate Friends;”

Abraham Cowley

Book III, lines 205-206
Davideis (1656)

“Thus would I double my life's fading space;
For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”

Abraham Cowley

Discourse xi, Of Myself, stanza xi; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy", Alexander Pope, Imitation of Martial.

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