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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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350 XXVIII. EDMUND SPENSER.:;:::Forth was I ledde, not as I wont afore,When choise I had <strong>to</strong> choose my wandring wayeBut whe<strong>the</strong>r luck and loues vnbridled loreWould leade me forth on Fancies bitte <strong>to</strong> playe.The bush my bedde, <strong>the</strong> bramble was my bovrre, 65The Woodes can witnesse many a wo full s<strong>to</strong>wre.Where Iwas wont <strong>to</strong> seeke <strong>the</strong> honey-Bee,Working her formall rowmes in Wexen frameThe grieslie Todes<strong>to</strong>ole growne <strong>the</strong>re mought I se,And loa<strong>the</strong>d Paddocks lording on <strong>the</strong> same. 70And where <strong>the</strong> chaunting birds luld me a sleepe,The ghasdie Owle her grieuous ynne doth keepe.Then as <strong>the</strong> springe giues place <strong>to</strong> elder time,And bringeth forth <strong>the</strong> fruite <strong>of</strong> sommers pryde :Also my age, now passed youngthly pryme, 75To thinges <strong>of</strong> ryper reason selfe applyed.And learnd <strong>of</strong> lighter timber cotes <strong>to</strong> frame,Such as might saue my sheepe and me fro shame.To make fine cages for <strong>the</strong> Nightingale,And Baskets <strong>of</strong> bulrushes, was my wontWho <strong>to</strong> entrappe <strong>the</strong> fish in winding saleWas better scene, or hurtful beastes <strong>to</strong> hont .?I learned als <strong>the</strong> signes <strong>of</strong> heauen <strong>to</strong> ken,How Phoebe fayles, where Vetius sittes, and when.80And tryed time yet taught me greater thinges85The sodain rysing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> raging seas :The soo<strong>the</strong> <strong>of</strong> byrds by beating <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir wings.The power <strong>of</strong> herbs, both which can hurt and easeAnd which be wont tenrage <strong>the</strong> restlesse sheepe.And which be wont <strong>to</strong> worke eternall sleepe. 90

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