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"Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay."
Sir Walter Raleigh / Verses to Edmund Spenser.
Verses to Edmund Spenser.
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"Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Introduction. St. 1.
Faerie Queene. Introduction. St. 1.
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"A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 1.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 1.
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"O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!"
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 9.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 9.
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"The noblest mind the best contentment has."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 35.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 35.
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"A bold bad man."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 37.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto i. St. 37.
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"Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto iii. St. 4.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto iii. St. 4.
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"Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!"
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 1.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 1.
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"As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 11.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 11.
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"Entire affection hateth nicer hands."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 40.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 40.
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"That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto ix. St. 35.
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto ix. St. 35.
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"No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto vi. St. 12.
Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto vi. St. 12.
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"And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?"
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto viii. St. 1.
Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto viii. St. 1.
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"How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!"
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto viii. St. 2.
Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto viii. St. 2.
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"Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto xii. St. 70.
Faerie Queene. Book ii. Canto xii. St. 70.
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"Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, In hope her to attain by hook or crook."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto i. St. 17.
Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto i. St. 17.
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"Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 3.
Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 3.
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"Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 6.
Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 6.
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"Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto xi. St. 54.
Faerie Queene. Book iii. Canto xi. St. 54.
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"Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto ii. St. 32.
Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto ii. St. 32.
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"For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto x. St. 21.
Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto x. St. 21.
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"Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book v. Canto ii. St. 43.
Faerie Queene. Book v. Canto ii. St. 43.
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"Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?"
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book v. Canto ii. St. 42.
Faerie Queene. Book v. Canto ii. St. 42.
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"The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne; For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed As by his manners."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book vi. Canto iii. St. 1.
Faerie Queene. Book vi. Canto iii. St. 1.
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"For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright."
Edmund Spenser / Faerie Queene. Book vii. Canto xi. St. 33.
Faerie Queene. Book vii. Canto xi. St. 33.
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"For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make."
Edmund Spenser / An Hymne in Honour of Beautie. Line 132.
An Hymne in Honour of Beautie. Line 132.
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"For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood."
Edmund Spenser / An Hymne in Honour of Beautie. Line 139.
An Hymne in Honour of Beautie. Line 139.
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"To kerke the narre from God more farre, Has bene an old-sayd sawe; And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe."
Edmund Spenser / The Shepheardes Calender. July. Line 97.
The Shepheardes Calender. July. Line 97.
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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."
Edmund Spenser / Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie. Line 209.
Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie. Line 209.
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"I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see."
Edmund Spenser / Daphnaida, v. 407.
Daphnaida, v. 407.
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"Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take."
Edmund Spenser / Amoretti, lxx.
Amoretti, lxx.
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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."
Edmund Spenser / Lines on his Promised Pension.
Lines on his Promised Pension.
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"Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes, And blesseth her with his two happy hands."
Edmund Spenser / Epithalamion. Line 223.
Epithalamion. Line 223.
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