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What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Highest
Feature
Lord
Weed
Enjoy
Feed
Fall
Creature
Nature
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Earth
Glorious
Delight
Creatures
Weeds

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