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• Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,
  A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
  Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

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  Sweet, Breathing, Play

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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• One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

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  Pain, Hands, Names

  'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 75

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• Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.

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  Justice, Grace, Grows

  1590 Of Mammon.The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 7, stanza 4.

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• Who would ever care to do brave deed,
  Or strive in virtue others to excel,
  If none should yield him his deserved meed
  Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
  For if good were not praised more than ill,
  None would choose goodness of his own free will.

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  Yield, Brave, Spurs

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• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fire, Envy, Rising

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• Good is no good, but if it be spend,
  God giveth good for none other end.

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  Charity, Ends, Ifs

  Edmund Spenser (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)”, p.65, Delphi Classics

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• The Patron of true Holinesse,
  Foule Errour doth defeate:
  Hypocrisie him to entrappe,
  Doth to his home entreate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Book, Home, Patron

  Edmund Spenser (1867). “Spenser. Book i of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin”, p.3

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• Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

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  Song, Fierce

  Edmund Spenser, Carol V. Kaske (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book One”, p.3, Hackett Publishing

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• For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

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  Beauty, Blood, Gentle

  Edmund Spenser (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics

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• In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

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  Baby, Boys, Want

  1595 Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.

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• But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

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  Smart, Heart, Thrones

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 2, stanza 23. buxom = 'yielding'.

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• Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

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  Children, Book, Self

  1579 The Shepherd's Calendar, 'To His Book'.

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• From good to bad, and from bad to worse,
  From worse unto that is worst of all,
  And then return to his former fall.

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  Fall, Return, Worst

  Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.225

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• Greatest god below the sky.

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  Money, Sky

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.3

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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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  Weed, Nature, Fall

  Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.63

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• Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.

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  Winter, Hands, Teeth

  Edmund Spenser (1869). “The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues”, p.786

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• For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared;
  Therefore his house is unto his annext:
  Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.

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  Sleep, House, Next

  Edmund Spenser (1866). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Memoir”, p.12

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• At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.

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  Heaven, Aurora, Golden

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• Oft stumbles at a straw.

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  Straws

  The Shepherd's Calendar "July" l. 99 (1579)

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