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That wrong is better checked by being contemned,
Than being pursued; leaving to him to avenge,
To whom it appertains; Wherein you shew.
How worthily your clearness hath condemned
Base malediction, living in the dark.
That at the rays of goodness still doth bark.
Knowing the heart of man is set to be
The centre of this world, about the which90
These revolutions of disturbances
Still roll; where all the aspects of misery
Predominate; whose strong effects are such.
As he must bear, being powerless to redress:
And that unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a Thing is man!
And how turmoiled they are that level lie
With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence;
That never are at peace with their desires
But work beyond their years; and even deny100