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• Like as the culver on the bared bough
  Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

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  Mourning, Absence, Mates

  Edmund Spenser, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1814). “Spenser's Sonnets”, p.176

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• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

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  Sweet, Time, Spring

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

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• In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

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  Revenge, Hate, Heart

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• 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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  Squares, World, Firsts

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.240

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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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• The nightingale is sovereign of song.

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  Song, Sovereign, Nightingales

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.286

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• Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.

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  Love, Pride, Rose

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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• All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring
  In goodly colours gloriously arrayed;
  Go to my love, where she is careless laid

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  Spring, Flower, Earth

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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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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• Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

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  Jealousy, Heart, Hateful

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• Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

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  Wrath, Rage, Repentance

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• Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

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  Hands, Victory, Vaunt

  Edmund Spenser (1852). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...”, p.214

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• For of the soule the bodie forme doth take;
  For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.

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  'An Hymn in Honour of Beauty' l. 132

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• 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.

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  Sea, Long, Soul

  Edmund Spenser, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1873). “Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen”, p.111

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• For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

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  Wise, Men, Reflection

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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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• Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be,
  That he should be so sterne to stranger wight;
  For seldom yet did living creature see
  That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

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  Stranger, Courtesy, Should

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.45

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• It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

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  Fall, Long, Common

  Edmund Spenser (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser”, p.86

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• The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

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  Men, Self, He Man

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.36

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• Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

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  Change, Reign, Stills

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• So passeth, in the passing of a day,
  Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

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  Bud, Passing, Passings

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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• So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

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  Purple, Vow, Malice

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.193

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• But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

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  Fashion, Heart, Angel

  Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.218

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• Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
  Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
  Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

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  Passion, Waking, Rage

  Edmund Spenser (1822). “The poems of Edmund Spenser”, p.10

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• For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

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  Men, Vices, Virtue

  1596 The Faerie Queen, bk.5, proem, stanza 4.

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