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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Love
Hateful
Foul
Jealousy
Dread
Loving
Thoughts
Joyless
Divine
Languish
Heart
Pine

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