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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Lord
Love
Like
Lesson
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Dear
Lessons
Ought
Taught

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