Spenser

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    Ye learned sisters which have oftentimes
    Beene to me ayding, others to adorne:
    Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes,
    That even the greatest did not greatly scorne
    To heare theyr names sung in your simple layes,
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses,
    She doth attyre under a net of gold:
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer,
    Great England’s glory and the world’s wide wonder,
    Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder,
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)