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The fairest action of our human life
Is scorning to revenge an injury:
For who forgives without a further strife
His adversary’s heart to him doth tie:
And ’tis a firmer conquest truly said
To win the heart, than overthrow the head.

If we a worthy enemy do find,
To yield to worth, it must be nobly done:
But if of baser metal be his mind,
In base revenge there is no honor won.
Who would a worthy courage overthrow?
And who would wrestle with a worthless foe?

We say our hearts are great, and cannot yield;
Because they cannot yield, it proves them poor:
Great hearts are task’d beyond their power but seld:
The weakest lion will the loudest roar.
Truth’s school for certain does this same allow,
High-heartedness doth sometimes teach to bow.

Lady E. Carew

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