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• Those that were up themselves, kept others low;
  Those that were low themselves, held others hard;
  He suffered them to ryse or greater grow;
  But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

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  Ambition, Strive, Lows

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.16

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• El hombre vano y glorioso, cuando sopla el viento agitado
  En su ala ligera, se eleva al cielo;
  El desprecio de la nobleza y la verdadera caballerosidad.
  Pensar, sin desierto de hechos gentiles
  Y noble valor, para ser elevado,
  tal alabanza es vergüenza, pero el honor, el premio de la virtud,
  lleva la flor más hermosa en la semilla honorable.

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  Flor, Golpe, Hombres

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

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  Fall, Liberty, Delight

  'Muiopotmos' l. 209

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• Mal puede gobernar lo grande quien no puede alcanzar lo pequeño.

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  Leadership, Motivation, Great Leader

  Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard (1842). “Faerie queene. book III-V”, p.245

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• Death is an equall doome
  To good and bad, the common In of rest.

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  Death, Common, Good And Bad

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser”, p.257

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• O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

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  Mind, Ambitious, Sacred

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 5, canto 12, st. 1

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• The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

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  Bait, Caught, Fishes

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• Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

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  Gold, Golden, Seems

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “The Fairy Queen”, p.272

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• How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

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  Fall, Men, Righteous Man

  Edmund Spenser (1805). “The Works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.37

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• Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.

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  Discord, Lays

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser”

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• Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;
  Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife
  Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath,
  Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;
  And fretting grief the enemy of life;
  All these and many evils more, haunt ire.

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  Grief, Anger, Wrath

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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• What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
  As to descry the crafty cunning train,
  By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,
  And cast her colours dyed deep in grain,
  To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign,
  And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,
  The guiltless man with guile to entertain?

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  Wise, Men, Deceit

  Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.125, Canon Press & Book Service

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• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

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  Sweet, Time, Spring

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

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• Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

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  Squares, World, Firsts

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.240

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• Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

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  Más difícil

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.64

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• It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.

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  Fall, Long, Common

  Edmund Spenser (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser”, p.86

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• The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

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  Men, Self, He Man

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.36

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• For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

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  Men, May, Littles

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.226

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• Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

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  Change, Reign, Stills

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• So passeth, in the passing of a day,
  Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

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  Bud, Passing, Passings

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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• Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

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  War, Wrath, Sight

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• So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

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  Purple, Vow, Malice

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.193

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• But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

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  Fashion, Heart, Angel

  Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.218

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• For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

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  Men, Vices, Virtue

  1596 The Faerie Queen, bk.5, proem, stanza 4.

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• Yet is there one more cursed than they all,
  That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
  Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
  Turning all love's delight to misery,
  Through fear of losing his felicity.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealousy, Heart, Monsters

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems”, p.14

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