Love
In youth, before I waxed old
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Love
In youth, before I waxed old,
The blynd boy, Venus baby,
For want of cunning, made me bold
In bitter hyve to grope for honny:
But when he saw me stung and cry,
He tooke his wings and away did fly.
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Spenser, Edmund. “In youth, before I waxed old.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/114/.
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Spenser, Edmund. “In youth, before I waxed old.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/114/.
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