“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”

—  George Herbert

Virtue, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633

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