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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.
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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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