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The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Made
Men
Imitate
Mock
Nature
Truth
Self

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For all that faire is, is by nature goodThat is a signe to know the gentle blood.
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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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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
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