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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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  Fate, Heaven, Might

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “THE FAERIE QUEENE.”, p.429

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

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  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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• Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.

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  Good Day, Night, Long

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser (1874). “The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser”, p.598

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• Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
  Of your loves couplement:
  And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
  With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

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  Heart, Joy, May

  Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.280

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• Why then should witless man so much misweene
  That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

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  Men, Should

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.64

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• But O the exceeding grace
  Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
  And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
  That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
  To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.

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  Blessed, Angel, Men

  Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd (1869). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser”, p.98

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• A sweet attractive kind of grace,
  A full assurance given by looks,
  Continual comfort in a face,
  The lineaments of Gospel books--
  I trow that countenance cannot lye
  Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

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  Sweet, Book, Eye

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• How many great ones may remember'd be,
  Which in their days most famously did flourish,
  Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see,
  But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish,
  Because the living cared not to cherish
  No gentle wits, through pride or covetize,
  Which might their names forever memorize!

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  Pride, Names, Forever

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• Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

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  Leadership, Motivation, Great Leader

  Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard (1842). “Faerie queene. book III-V”, p.245

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• Those that were up themselves, kept others low;
  Those that were low themselves, held others hard;
  He suffered them to ryse or greater grow;
  But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

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  Ambition, Strive, Lows

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.16

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• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

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  Fall, Liberty, Delight

  'Muiopotmos' l. 209

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• Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

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  Time, Moving, Numbers

  1595 Epithalamion, section 16.

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• What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel
  Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway.

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  Cycles, Mortals

  "The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations".

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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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• He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

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  Grief, Epic, Flames

  Edmund Spenser, Carol V. Kaske (2006). “The Faerie Queene, Book One”, p.34, Hackett Publishing

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• Death is an equall doome
  To good and bad, the common In of rest.

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  Death, Common, Good And Bad

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser”, p.257

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• For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

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  Men, May, Littles

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.226

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• Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

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  War, Wrath, Sight

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• Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

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  Gold, Golden, Seems

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “The Fairy Queen”, p.272

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• How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

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  Fall, Men, Righteous Man

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.37

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• Yet is there one more cursed than they all,
  That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
  Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
  Turning all love's delight to misery,
  Through fear of losing his felicity.

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  Jealousy, Heart, Monsters

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems”, p.14

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• To be wise and eke to love,
  Is granted scarce to gods above.

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  Life, Wise, Love Is

  'The Shepherd's Calendar' (1579) 'March. Willy's Emblem'

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• Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

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  Discord, Lays

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser”

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• Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;
  Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife
  Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath,
  Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;
  And fretting grief the enemy of life;
  All these and many evils more, haunt ire.

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  Grief, Anger, Wrath

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

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• What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
  As to descry the crafty cunning train,
  By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,
  And cast her colours dyed deep in grain,
  To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign,
  And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,
  The guiltless man with guile to entertain?

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  Wise, Men, Deceit

  Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.125, Canon Press & Book Service

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