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Our daies are full of dolor and disease, Our life afflicted with incessant paine, That nought on earth may lessen or appease. Why then should I desire here to remaine? Or why should he that loves me, sorie bee For my deliverence, or at all complaine My good to hear, and tóward joyes to see?
Our daies are full of dolor and disease, Our life afflicted with incessant paine, That nought on earth may lessen or appease. Why then should I desire here to remaine? Or why should he that loves me, sorie bee For my deliverence, or at all complaine My good to hear, and tóward joyes to see?
Approximate author period: c. 1576 AD · renaissance
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- Edmund Spenser
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- Approximate author period: c. 1576 AD · renaissance
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 205 · printed citation: Edmund Spenser (Daphnaïda). · compiler notes excluded
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