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What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

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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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie. Line 209.

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