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And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Nought
Crop
Crops
Harvest
Thus
Hope
Care
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