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), British poet. Prothalamion (l. 145-147). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

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

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. The Faerie Queene. . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

Gather therefore the Rose, whilest yet is prime,
For soone comes age, that will her pride deflowre:
Gather the Rose of love, whilest yet is time,
Whilest loving thou mayst loved be with equall crime.'

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. The Faerie Queene (l. 16-18). PoEL-1. The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound,
Of all that mote delight a daintie eare,

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. The Faerie Queene. . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

Like as the culver on the bared bough
Sits mourning for the absence of her mate,

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; LXXXIX. Like as the culver (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

Whether lying reastlesse in heavy bedde, or else
Sitting so cheerelesse at the cheerfull boorde, or else
Playing alone carelesse on hir heavenlie virginals.

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Iambicum Trimetrum (l. 4-6). PoEL-1. The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

"Of fayre Elisa be your silver song,
That blessed wight:
The flowre of virgins, may shee florish long
In princely plight.

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. The Shepheardes Calender (l. 46-49). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

"Lo, how finely the Graces can it foote
To the instrument:
They dauncen deffly, and singen soote,
In their meriment.
Wants not a fourth Grace, to make the daunce even?

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. The Shepheardes Calender (l. 109-113). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete?
What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne?
Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete?
Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. The Shepheardes Calender (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)

"Ye dayntye Nymphs, that in this blessed brooke
Doe bathe your brest,
Forsake you watry bowres,

(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. The Shepheardes Calender (l. 37-39). . . The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)