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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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XXXII.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
Behold the man! and tell me, Brito-mart,If ay more goodly creature thou didst see?How like a Gyaunt in each manly partBeares he himselfe with portly majestee,That one of th’ old Heroés seemes to bee!He the six Islands, comprovinciallIn auncient times unto great Britainee,Shall to the same reduce, and to him callTheir sondry kings to do their homageseverall.XXxIII.‘ All which his sonne Careticus awhileShall well defend, and Saxons powre sup-presse ;Untill a straunger king, from unknownesoyleArriving, him with multitude oppresse;Great Gormond, having with huge mighti- nesse Ireland subdewd, and therein fixt histhrone, Like a swift Otter, fell through empti-nesse, Shall overswim the sea, with many one fone.XXXIV. ‘He in his furie all shall overronne,