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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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Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 55m

What end (quoth she) should cause vs take such paine,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 1h

And asked, to what end they clomb that tedious height.

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 2h

Who well them greeting, humbly did requight,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 3h

They him saluted standing far afore;

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 4h

He would not once haue moued for the knight.

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 5h

Whom highly he did reuerence and adore,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 6h

And had he not that Dame respected more,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 7h

That forst him lay his heauenly thoughts aside;

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 8h

At their first presence grew agrieued sore,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 9h

Who when these two approching he aspide,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 10h

And pyn'd his flesh, to keepe his body low and chast.

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 11h

His mind was full of spirituall repast,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 12h

For nought he car'd his carcas long vnfed;

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 13h

And euery sinew seene through his long fast:

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 14h

Each bone might through his body well be red,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 15h

The mossy braunches of an Oke halfe ded.

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 16h

As hoarie frost with spangles doth attire

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 17h

With snowy lockes adowne his shoulders shed,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 18h

There they do finde that godly aged Sire,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 19h

Gan faile, but by her helpe the top at last he wonne.

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 20h

That his frayle thighes nigh wearie and fordonne

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 21h

That hill they scale with all their powre and might,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 22h

As Eagles eye, that can behold the Sunne:

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 23h

Yet wondrous quick and persant was his spright,

Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · 1d

And through great age had lost their kindly sight,