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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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Unhappiness
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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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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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
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Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
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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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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Then came October, full of merry glee.
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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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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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