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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.

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