Quotation by Edmund Spenser

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Shepheards delights he dooth them all forsweare,
Hys pleasaunt pipe, whych made us meriment,
He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare,
His wonted songs, wherein he all outwent.

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599), British poet. The Shepheardes Calender (l. 13–16). . .

The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.

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