Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene

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Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.

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Into the woods thenceforth in hast she went,
To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy;
For she of hearbes had great intendiment,
Taught of the Nymphe, which from her infancy
Her nourced had in trew Nobility:
There, whether it divine Tobacco were,
Or Panachaea, or Polygony,
She found, and brought it to her patient deare
Who al this while lay bleeding out his hart-bloud neare.

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Upon her eyelids many Graces sate,
Under the shadow of her even brows.

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No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd,
No arborett with painted blossoms drest
And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd
To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

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But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong,
Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

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Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous Prime.

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Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall!

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For all that moveth doth in Change delight:
But thenceforth all shall rest eternally
With Him that is the God of Sabbaoth hight.

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Roses red and violets blue,
And all the sweetest flowers, that in the forest grew.

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Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,
From the first point of his appointed sourse,
And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

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Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.

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And is there care in Heaven? And is there love
In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower,
No more doth flourish after first decay,
That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower.

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A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.

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And as she looked about, she did behold,
How over that same door was likewise writ,
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold…
At last she spied at that room's upper end
Another iron door, on which was writ
Be not too bold.

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And in his hand a sickle he did holde,
To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.

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Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

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As withered weed through cruell winters tine,
That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection,
Liftes up his head, that did before decline
And gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.

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And as she lookt about, she did behold,
How over that same dore was likewise writ,
Be bold, be bold, and every where Be bold,
That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it
By any ridling skill, or commune wit.
At last she spyde at that same roomes upper end,
Another yron dore, on which was writ,
Be not too bold.

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A bold bad man, that dared to call by name
Great Gorgon, Prince of darkness and dead night.

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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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That darksome cave they enter, where they find
That cursed man, low sitting on the ground,
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.

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