I am a little world made cunningly.

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.