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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
Mock
Nature
Truth
Self
Made
Men
Imitate

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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!
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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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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
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Then came October, full of merry glee.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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