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Greatest god below the sky.

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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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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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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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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.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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Then came October, full of merry glee.
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The nightingale is sovereign of song.
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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fly from wrath sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
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