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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Passion
Love
Appall
Lamenting
Raging
Waking
Rage

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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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