Prove what they will bear, 55 And what they will not
content, but also style: what can be beared with style
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To form a work, I would no more desire 50 To be that smith than live marked one of those With fair black eyes and hair, and a wry nose.
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faults
faults with work
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lee
shelter
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his striving to run smooth, and flow, Hath neither soul nor sinews
trying to create art that is without risk has enither soul or sinew
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And, painter, haply thou Know’st only well to paint a cypress tree.
Plato - on the dude who ONLY knows homer
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scarlet piece or two stitched in,
repair
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In grave beginnings and great things professed
books with grave beginnings and great things announced
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cleave
divide
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Whose shapes, like sick men’s dreams, are feigned so vain As neither head nor foot one form retain.
art is FAKE
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that book
what is THAT book
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Could you contain your laughter
friends laugh at absurdity
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uncomely
not agreeable
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swarthy
dark
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If to a woman’s head a painter would Set a horse-neck, and diverse feathers fold On every limb, ta’en from a several creature, Presenting upwards a fair female feature,
half-woman, half beast?
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Jove
GILL : "Jove knows" (Zeus) PENGUIN : "Love knows" Cupid)
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Jude
India
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thrall
thrall - bondage
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rough Jades
rough jades - horses of inferior breeding
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I saw a brandisht fire encrease in strength,Which being not shakt, I saw it dye at length.
I saw a brandishing fire increase in strength; when not shaken, I saw it die at length
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praise
Praise (Gill); Sprays (Penguin) - sprays -> a slender shoot/twig
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Mirtle
Myrtle - mark of Venus; love
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Girt
Girt - encircle
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warblest
Warble: - (birds) to sing clearly, sweetly - tune, melody - a small, hard tumor - shake/vibrate
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Elegian Muse,
elegian muse - muse of elegy (love poetry)
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impe
Imple - child of the devil
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In wooddie groves ist meete that Ceres raigne?And quiver-bearing Dian till the plaine
We are devoted to the Muses, not to Eros. What would happen if Ceres lorded over the forest; Diana, over the farmland?
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tooke_one foote away
Concerning poetry - tooko one foote away in relation to the length of poetry. Taking one foote away, turning it into a love poem
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love
love lowercased in Gills edition; Love capitalized in Penguin editions, denoting the god of Love, Cupid
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alarmes
alarmes - call to arms ; warning
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upreard
upreard - raised up
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astid
I am weaving poetry for them, and they get pleasure from reading it, but I in return get naught but a meager prize of - a meager, surface-level reading
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providing a false Glosse (glosse v gloss)
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paspni
might be able to understand it, but you can only judge it if you are of the learned - who can understand what Spenser is writing, to understand the intent and invention of it
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payUNOd
terms used to describe immigrants, who were high-regulated and discriminated against
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dA1ond
Shepherds will talk like Shepherds - which is why they use an old fashioned English - they won't talk like Lords, like Sidney
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AHLAOONA
uncouthed - unacquainted; unknown
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9Y]4ajfDa40Upuas[fia|puyaafopossvatJoya‘auta4auto’)
tell me what the public has said about me, and i'll write more after this
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appayApavy
foolishness once someone has read you, they will know how foolish i was to either a) publish it or b) stay anonymous
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quayua
unkown
the book whose parent is unknown - the book who is an orphan
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ONAIUMULT
the UNWORHTY.
Spenser published the Shephearde's Calendar anonymously - perhaps in fear of political pushback, as he wrote poetry to address politics
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USS
lie
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When you finally begin to write poetry again, your name will be put into Heaven (immortality)
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ISOM
the Sun?
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psvsydays
Shephearde meaning Orpheus
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echoes Sidney's argument against English poetry
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xenophobic !
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juWInquNs
sunburnt: Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, "1": "Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . .."
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a4nozIns
aid
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