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Amoretti: Sonnet 84

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Title:     Amoretti: Sonnet 84
Author: Edmund Spenser [More Titles by Spenser]

The world, that cannot deeme of worthy things,
When I doe praise her, say I doe but flatter:
So does the cuckow, when the mavis* sings,
Begin his witlesse note apace to clatter.
But they, that skill not of so heavenly matter,
All that they know not, envy or admyre;
Rather then envy, let them wonder at her,
But not to deeme of her desert aspyre.
Deepe in the closet of my parts entyre**,
Her worth is written with a golden quill,
That me with heavenly fury doth inspire,
And my glad mouth with her sweet prayses fill:
Which when as Fame in her shril trump shall thunder,
Let the world chuse to envy or to wonder.


[* _Mavis_, song-thrush.]
[** _Entyre,_ inward.]


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Edmund Spenser's poem: Amoretti: Sonnet 84

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