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Edmund Spenser
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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 (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease, And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And all for love, and nothing for reward.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.”
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“Into the woods thenceforth in hast she went, To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy; For she of hearbes had great intendiment, Taught of the Nymphe, which from her infancy Her nourced had in trew Nobility: There, whether it divine Tobacco were, Or Panachaea, or Polygony, She found, and brought it to her patient deare Who al this while lay bleeding out his hart-bloud neare.”
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“Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And as she lookt about, she did behold, How over that same dore was likewise writ, Be bold, be bold, and every where Be bold, That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it By any ridling skill, or commune wit. At last she spyde at that same roomes upper end, Another yron dore, on which was writ, Be not too bold.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As withered weed through cruell winters tine, That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection, Liftes up his head, that did before decline And gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.”
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“Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.”
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“A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.”
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“The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners.”
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“And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.”
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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.”
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“The rolling wheel, that runneth often round, The hardest steel in tract of time doth tear; And drizzling drops, that often do redound, The firmest flint doth in continuance wear: Yet cannot I, with many a dropping tear, And long entreaty, soften her hard heart, That she will once vouchsafe my plaint to hear, Or look with pity on my painful smart: But when I plead, she bids me play my part; And when I weep, she says, "Tears are but water"; And when I sigh, she says, "I know the art"; And when I wail, she turns herself to laughter; So do I weep and wail, and plead in vain, Whiles she as steel and flint doth still remain.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A bold bad man.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, In hope her to attain by hook or crook.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne; For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed As by his manners.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) said by 1599 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source