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1. "My love is like to ice, and I to fire;How comes it then that this her cold so greatIs not dissolv'd through my so hot desire,But harder grows the more I her entreat?Or how comes it that my exceeding heatIs not delay'd by her heart-frozen cold;But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,And feel my flames augmented manifold!What more miraculous thing may be told,That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice;And ice, which is congeal'd with senseless cold,Should kindle fire by wonderful device!Such is the power of love in gentle mind,That it can alter all the course of kind." ~ Edmund Spenser
2. "For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought." ~ Edmund Spenser
3. "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.Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assayA mortal thing so to immortalise;For I myself shall like to this decay,And eke my name be wipèd out likewise.Not so (quod I); let baser things deviseTo die in dust, but you shall live by fame;My verse your virtues rare shall eternise,And in the heavens write your glorious name:Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue,Our love shall live, and later life renew." ~ Edmund Spenser
4. "Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love?- Epithalamion" ~ Edmund Spenser
5. "For love is a celestial harmonyOf likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent,Which join together in sweet sympathy,To work each other's joy and true content,Which they have harbour'd since their first descentOut of their heavenly bowers, where they did seeAnd know each other here belov'd to be." ~ Edmund Spenser
6. "O but," quoth she, "great griefe will not be tould, And can more easily be thought, then said." "Right so"; quoth he, "but he, that never would, Could never: will to might gives greatest aid." "But grief," quoth she, "does great grow displaid, If then it find not helpe, and breedes despaire." "Despaire breedes not," quoth he, "where faith is staid." "No faith so fast," quoth she, "but flesh does paire.""Flesh may empaire," quoth he, "but reason can repaire." ~ Edmund Spenser
7. "The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide,But forth vnto the darksome hole he went,And looked in:his glistring armor madeA litle glooming light, much like a shade," ~ Edmund Spenser
8. "His Lady sad to see his sore constraint, Cried out, "Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee, Add faith unto your force, and be not faint: Strangle her, else she sure will strangle thee." That when he heard, in great perplexitie, His gall did grate for griefe and high distaine, And knitting all his force got one hand free, Wherewith he grypt her gorge with so great paine,That soone to loose her wicked bands did her constraine." ~ Edmund Spenser
9. "Here haue I cause, in men iust blame to find,That in their proper prayse too partiall bee,And not indifferent to woman kind,To whom no share in armes and cheualrieThey do impart, ne maken memorieOf their brave gestes and prowess martiall;Scarse do they spare to one or two or three,Rowme in their writs; yet the same writing smallDoes all their deeds deface, and dims their glories all,But by record of antique times I find,That women wont in warres to beare most sway,And to all great exploits them selues inclind:Of which they still the girlond bore away,Till enuious Men fearing their rules decay,Gan coyne straight laws to curb their liberty;Yet sith they warlike armes haue layd away:They haue exceld in artes and policy,That now we foolish men that prayse gin eke t'enuy." ~ Edmund Spenser
10. "He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse." ~ Edmund Spenser
11. "For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;" ~ Edmund Spenser
12. "Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life." ~ Edmund Spenser
13. "Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust." ~ Edmund Spenser
14. "Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad." ~ Edmund Spenser
15. "Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best." ~ Edmund Spenser
16. "Thrice happy she that is so well assured Unto herself and settled so in heart That neither will for better be allured Ne fears to worse with any chance to start, But like a steddy ship doth strongly part The raging waves and keeps her course aright; Ne aught for tempest doth from it depart, Ne aught for fairer weather's false delight. Such self-assurance need not fear the spight Of grudging foes; ne favour seek of friends; But in the stay of her own stedfast might Neither to one herself nor other bends. Most happy she that most assured doth rest, But he most happy who such one loves best." ~ Edmund Spenser
17. "But O the exceeding graceOf highest God, that loves his creatures so,And all his works with mercy doth embrace,That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe." ~ Edmund Spenser
18. "Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place." ~ Edmund Spenser
19. "The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death." ~ Edmund Spenser
20. "And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw." ~ Edmund Spenser
21. "And all for love, and nothing for reward." ~ Edmund Spenser
22. "I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason." ~ Edmund Spenser
23. "Each goodly thing is hardest to begin." ~ Edmund Spenser
24. "It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor." ~ Edmund Spenser
25. "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please." ~ Edmund Spenser
26. "What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?" ~ Edmund Spenser
27. "Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it,For that your self ye daily such doe see:But the trew fayre, that is the gentle wit,And vertuous mind, is much more praysd of me.For all the rest, how ever fayre it be,Shall turne to nought and loose that glorious hew:But onely that is permanent and freeFrom frayle corruption, that doth flesh ensew.That is true beautie: that doth argue youTo be divine and borne of heavenly seed:Deriv'd from that fayre Spirit, from whom al trueAnd perfect beauty did at first proceed.He onely fayre, and what he fayre hath made,All other fayre lyke flowres untymely fade." ~ Edmund Spenser
28. "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." ~ Edmund Spenser
29. "Aye me, how many perils do enfoldThe righteous man, to make him daily fall?Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,And steadfast truth acquite him out of all." ~ Edmund Spenser
30. "Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?" ~ Edmund Spenser
31. "Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem,Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield:The worth of all men by their end esteem,And then praise, or due reproach them yield." ~ Edmund Spenser
32. "Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage,These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage?The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde,All as I were through the body gryde.My ragged rontes all shiver and shake,As doen high Towers in an earthquake:They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes,Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales." ~ Edmund Spenser

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