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1 1| where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for 2 1| mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that 3 1| excellently well: It is a pleasure, to stand upon the shore, 4 1| ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure, to stand in the window 5 1| adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing 6 4| purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honor, or the like. 7 5| judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure 8 5| pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue 9 9| he taketh a kind of play–pleasure, in looking upon the fortunes 10 17| and gardens of state and pleasure, near great cities; armories; 11 21| others carry it with more pleasure. It is a good point of cunning, 12 26| it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of 13 36| thing of great state and pleasure. I understand it, that the 14 36| anthem–wise, give great pleasure. Turning dances into figure, 15 36| things of great beauty and pleasure; for they feed and relieve 16 36| and makes it, with great pleasure, to desire to see, that 17 36| and heat, things of great pleasure and refreshment. Double 18 43| they think they may, at pleasure, despise: and it layeth 19 45| alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.~ 20 45| but nothing to the true pleasure of a garden.~ ~