Edmund Spenser Quotes

• Next was November, he full gross and fat, As fed with lard, and that right well might seem; For, he had been a fatting hogs of late.

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• Jolly June, arrayed All in green leaves, as he a Player were.

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• First, sturdy March with brows full sternly bent, And armed strongly, rode upon a ram, The same which over Hellespontus swam: Yet in his hand a spade he also hent, And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame, Which on the earth he strowed as he went, And filled her womb with fruitful hope of nourishment.

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• What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel, How mutability in them doth play Her cruel sports, to many men’s decay?

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• Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.

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• The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed, As by his manners.

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• Yet is that glass so gay, that it can blind The wisest sight, to think gold that is brass.

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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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• Me seems the world is run quite out of square, And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.

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• A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad.

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• O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

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• Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, On Fame’s eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.

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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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• Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the belly full, Pour out to all that will, And sprinkle all the posts and walls with wine, That they may sweat, and drunken be withal.

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• Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in.

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• In youth, before I waxed old, The blind boy, Venus’ baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

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

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• But when I plead, she bids me play my part, And when I weep, she says tears are but water: And when I sigh, she says I know the art, And when I wail, she turns herself to laughter.

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• Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

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• Of such deep learning little had he need, Ne yet of Latin, ne of Greek that breed Doubts ’mongst divines, and difference of texts, From when arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies.

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Edmund Spenser (52)

Birth:	1552
Death:	13th January, 1599
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

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Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

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