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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
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Edmund Spencer
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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