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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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THOMALIN'S EMBLEME.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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Illustration: APRILAEGLOGAQUARTA EMBLEMES] APRIL. ÆGLOGA QUARTA. ARGUMENT. This Æglogue is purposely intended to the honour and praise of our mostgracious sovereign, Queen Elizabeth. The speakers hereof be Hobbinol andThenot, two shepheards: the which Hobbinol, being beforementionedgreatly to have loved Colin, is here set forth more largely, complaininghim of that boy's great misadventure in love; whereby his mind wasalienated and withdrawn not only from him, who most loved him, but alsofrom all former delights and studies, as well in pleasant piping, ascunning rhyming and singing, and other his laudable exercises. Wherebyhe taketh occasion, for proof of his more excellency and skill inpoetry, to record a song, which the said Colin sometime made in honourof her Majesty, whom abruptly he termeth Elisa.
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