Edmund Spenser Quotes - Page 6

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• Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealous, Hands, Affection

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.62

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• The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

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  Gentleman, Deeds, Gentle

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 6, canto 3, st. 1

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• The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Cuckoos, Messengers

  Edmund Spenser, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1814). “Spenser's Sonnets”, p.38

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• O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

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  Feet, Doe, Earth

  Edmund Spenser (2008). “The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes: Book One; Book Two; Books Three and Four; Book Five; Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos”, p.155, Hackett Publishing

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• And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

  Edmund Spenser

  Care, Harvest, Crops

  Edmund Spenser (2013). “The Shepheardes Calender”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• There is no disputing about taste.

  Edmund Spenser

  Taste

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• I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

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  Lying, Countenance

  Edmund Spenser (1882). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose: Essays. Daphnaida. Colin Clouts come home again. Amoretti and Epithalamion. Fowre hymnes. Prothalamion. Astrophel, etc., and Sonnets”

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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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• A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.

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  Knights, Gentle, Faerie

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 1, canto 1, st. 1

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• Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.

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  Heart, Winning, Fool

  Edmund Spenser, Theodore Bathurst (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser: In Six Volumes : with a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words”, p.1500

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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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• For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

  Edmund Spenser

  Evil, Deeds, May

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• And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.

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  Food, Order, Names

  Edmund Spenser (1872). “Spenser. Book ii of The faery queene, ed. by G.W. Kitchin”, p.116

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• Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
  Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
  Thought

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  Wings, Poetry, Flying

  Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd (1859). “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.15

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• Fondnesse it were for any being free,
  To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

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  Freedom, Being Free, Bees

  Edmund Spenser (1842). “Poetical Works ...: Miscellaneous poems”, p.326

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• So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
  So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
  The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

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  Singing, Woods, Answers

  Edmund Spenser (1840). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings”, p.420

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• good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete?
  What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne?
  Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete?
  Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

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  Art, Mourning, Broke

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.376

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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

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Breathing, Play

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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• Oft stumbles at a straw.

  Edmund Spenser

  Straws

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

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