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  • Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
    Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
    Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;
    Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough;
    Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
    Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
    Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
    And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

    Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet XXVI”