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— William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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HOBBINOL'S EMBLEME.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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Illustration: MAYAEGLOGAQUINTA EMBLEMES] MAY. ÆGLOGA QUINTA. ARGUMENT. In this fifth Æglogue, under the person of two shepheards, Piers andPalinode, be represented two forms of Pastors or Ministers, or theProtestant and the Catholic; whose chief talk standeth in reasoning,whether the life of the one must be like the other; with whom havingshewed, that it is dangerous to maintain any fellowship, or give toomuch credit to their colourable and feigned good-will, he telleth him atale of the Fox, that, by such a counterpoint of craftiness, deceivedand devoured the credulous Kid.
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