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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Edmund Spenser

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
EDMUND SPENSER

Advice Bite Hard Ocean
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

Fall Lost Oneself Place
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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Breathe Fair Light Play Soft Spirit Sweet
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Fly Happiness Thinking Wings
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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End God Goodness
For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
EDMUND SPENSER

Compare Death Help Home Sleep
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
EDMUND SPENSER

Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Greatness Myself Reach Rule
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
EDMUND SPENSER

Advice Lost Philosophy
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
EDMUND SPENSER

Action Gentle Mindset
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Betrayal Man Manner Mindset
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Day Flower Life Mortal Pass
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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Blissful Delight Garden Growth Happiness Immortal
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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Action Bad Evil Home Word
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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Myself Promise Reason Season Time

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

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