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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
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Edmund Spencer
Profitable
Doctrine
Rule
Example
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.
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