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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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Edmund Spencer
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What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.
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Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife And fretting grief the enemy of life All these and many evils more, haunt ire.
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So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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