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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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MORRELL'S EMBLEME.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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In summo felicitas._(Happiness in the highest.) [Illustration: AUGUSTAEGLOGAOCTAVA EMBLEMES] AUGUST. ÆGLOGA OCTAVA. ARGUMENT. In this Æglogue is set forth a delectable controversy, made in imitationof that in Theocritus: whereto also Virgil fashioned his third andseventh Æglogue. They chose for umpire of their strife, Cuddy, aneat-herd's boy; who, having ended their cause, reciteth also himself aproper song, whereof Colin he saith was author.
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