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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.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
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Edmund Spencer
Manhood
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Seldom
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Stranger
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Creatures
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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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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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
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Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Greatest god below the sky.
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