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What doth it serve to see sun's burning face, And skies enamelled with both the Indies' gold? Or moon at night in jetty chariot roll'd, And all the glory of that starry place?
"What doth it Serve?" Poems (1616)
For what doth serve all that this world contains, Sith she for whom those once to me were dear, No part of them can have now with me here?
"What doth it Serve?" Poems (1616)
The last and greatest herald of Heaven's King, Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild, Among that savage brood the woods forth bring, Which he than man more harmless found and mild.