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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,<br />

And in the heavens write your glorious name,<br />

Where when as death shall all the world subdue,<br />

Our love shall live, and later life renew.<br />

‘Amoretti’ (1595) sonnet 75<br />

So love is Lord <strong>of</strong> all the world by right.<br />

‘Colin Clout’s Come Home Again’ (1595) l. 883<br />

So you great Lord, that with your counsel sway<br />

<strong>The</strong> burden <strong>of</strong> this kingdom mightily,<br />

With like delights sometimes may eke delay,<br />

<strong>The</strong> rugged brow <strong>of</strong> careful Policy.<br />

‘Dedicatory Sonnet to Sir Christopher Hatton’<br />

Open the temple gates unto my love,<br />

Open them wide that she may enter in.<br />

‘Epithalamion’ (1595) l. 204<br />

Ah! when will this long weary day have end,<br />

And lend me leave to come unto my love?<br />

‘Epithalamion’ (1595) l. 278<br />

Song made in lieu <strong>of</strong> many ornaments,<br />

With which my love should duly have been decked.<br />

‘Epithalamion’ (1595) l. 427<br />

<strong>The</strong> general end therefore <strong>of</strong> all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous<br />

and gentle discipline.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) preface<br />

Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 1, introduction, st. 1<br />

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 1, canto 1, st. 1<br />

But on his breast a bloody cross he bore,<br />

<strong>The</strong> dear remembrance <strong>of</strong> his dying Lord.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 1, canto 1, st. 2<br />

But <strong>of</strong> his cheer did seem too solemn sad;<br />

Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 1, canto 1, st. 2<br />

A bold bad man, that dared to call by name<br />

Great Gorgon, Prince <strong>of</strong> darkness and dead night.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Faerie Queen’ (1596) bk. 1, canto 1, st. 37.<br />

Her angel’s face<br />

As the great eye <strong>of</strong> heaven shinéd bright,<br />

And made a sunshine in the shady place;

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