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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought
Edmund Spenser
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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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Edmund Spencer
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Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
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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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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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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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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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Fly from wrath sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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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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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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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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Then came October, full of merry glee.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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