Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
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SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.


=Exile.=

Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed,
The modest matron, and the blushing maid,
Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,
To traverse climes beyond the Western main.
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GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 407.


=Expectation.=

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
640
SUCKLING: _Against Fruition._


=Experience.=

Experience is by industry achieved,
And perfected by the swift course of time.
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