Spenser Dispenser
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Every hour, I post a line of Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" (1596). Posting at this rate, the bot will finish all 6 books (plus the Mutabilitie Cantos) in just over 4 years (April '29). My father is https://bsky.app/profile/johnmkuhn.bsky.social
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What end (quoth she) should cause vs take such paine,
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And asked, to what end they clomb that tedious height.
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Who well them greeting, humbly did requight,
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They him saluted standing far afore;
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He would not once haue moued for the knight.
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Whom highly he did reuerence and adore,
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And had he not that Dame respected more,
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That forst him lay his heauenly thoughts aside;
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At their first presence grew agrieued sore,
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Who when these two approching he aspide,
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And pyn'd his flesh, to keepe his body low and chast.
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His mind was full of spirituall repast,
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For nought he car'd his carcas long vnfed;
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And euery sinew seene through his long fast:
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Each bone might through his body well be red,
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The mossy braunches of an Oke halfe ded.
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As hoarie frost with spangles doth attire
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With snowy lockes adowne his shoulders shed,
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There they do finde that godly aged Sire,
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Gan faile, but by her helpe the top at last he wonne.
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That his frayle thighes nigh wearie and fordonne
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That hill they scale with all their powre and might,
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As Eagles eye, that can behold the Sunne:
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Yet wondrous quick and persant was his spright,
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And through great age had lost their kindly sight,