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Title: Amoretti: Sonnet 40 Author: Edmund Spenser [More Titles by Spenser] XL. Mark when she smiles with amiable cheare, [Footnote: XL. 4.--_An hundred Graces._ E.K., in his commentary on the Shepheards Calender, quotes a line closely resembling this from Spenser's Pageants: "An hundred Graces on her eyelids sat." The same fancy occurs in the Faerie Queene, and in the Hymn to Beauty. It is copied from a poem ascribed to Musaeus. C.] [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |