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THE valiant heart, that feeles the vtmost spight,
Of envious Fortune, who with Sword and fire,
Awaites his ruine, with redoubled might,
Takes courage to him, and abates her ire,
By resolution, and a constant mind,
To deede of virtue, evermore inclin'd.

Whose sp'rite, a sparke of heavens immortall fire,
Inglorious Sloth, may not in embers keepe,
But spite of hell, it will at length aspire,
And even by strawes, for want of fewell creepe:
When fearefull natures, and the mind vnsound,
At every blast, is beaten to the ground.