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George Herbert - Dotage
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False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse,
Foolish night-fires, women`s and children`s wishes,
Chases in arras, guilded emptinesse,
Shadows well mounted, dreams in a career,
Embroider`d lyes, nothing between two dishes;
                    These are the pleasures here.

True earnest sorrows, rooted miseries
Anguish in grain, vexations ripe and blown,
Sure-footed griefs, solid calamities,
Plain demonstrations, evident and cleare,
Fetching their proofs ev`n from the very bone;
                    These are the sorrows here.

But oh the folly of distracted men,
Who griefs in earnest, joyes in jest pursue;
Preferring, like brute beasts, a loathsome den
Before a court, ev`n that above so cleare,
Where are no sorrows, but delights more true
                    Then miseries are here!
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