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• In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

  Edmund Spenser

  Firsts, Vain, Temper

  Edmund Spenser (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser”, p.872

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• Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Evening, States

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd”, p.26

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• Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime,
  For none can call again the passed time.

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  Sweet, Sweet Love, Haste

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems”, p.182

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• Together linkt with adamantine chains.

  Edmund Spenser

  Life, Together, Chains

  Edmund Spenser (1679). “The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser: Viz : The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is Added, an Account of His Life ; with Other New Additions Never Before in Print”

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• Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.

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  Love, Kings, Spring

  'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 70

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• Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Heaven, Mind

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• The noblest mind the best contentment has

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  Mind, Self Improvement, Contentment

  Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.32, Canon Press & Book Service

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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. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.

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  Pain, Writing, Men

  'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 75

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• My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
  How comes it then that this her cold so great
  Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
  But harder grows the more I her entreat?

  Edmund Spenser

  Love Is, Ice, Fire

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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• All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

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  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Edmund Spenser, John Hughes (1750). “The Works: In Sex Volumes. With A Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words. To which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author, and an Essay on Allegorical Poetry”, p.270

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• Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

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  Nurse, Sin, Sluggish

  Edmund Spenser (1850). “Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].”, p.39

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• Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.

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  Simple, Law, People

  Edmund Spenser (1890). “Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First”, London : G. Routledge

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• For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

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  Wise, Running, Men

  Edmund Spenser, Theodore Bathurst (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser: In Six Volumes : with a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words”, p.1473

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• All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

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  Love, Sweet, Voice

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• All that in this world is great or gay,
  Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

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  Gay, Decay, World

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• All flesh doth frailty breed!

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  Mistake, Flesh, Frailty

  Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.229

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• For if good were not praised more than ill,
  None would chuse goodness of his own free will.

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  Free Will, Praise, Goodness

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems”, p.266

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• For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.

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  Eye, Night, Sight

  Edmund Spenser (1850). “Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].”, p.31

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• Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

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  Hardest

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.64

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• Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.

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  Horse, Teach, Hard

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• And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

  Edmund Spenser

  Pleasure, Paine

  Edmund Spenser (1873). “The Faerie queene (continued)”, p.41

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• Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

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  Hope, Mercy, Having Hope

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “Spenser's Faerie Queene”, p.166

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• I hate the day, because it lendeth light
  To see all things, but not my love to see.

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  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.440

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• Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
  In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky;
  The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.
  To think, without desert of gentle deed
  And noble worth, to be advanced high,
  Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed,
  Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.

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  Flower, Blow, Men

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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• Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

  Edmund Spenser

  Sad, Long, Ends

  'Epithalamion' (1595) l. 278

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