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Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

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His clownish gifts and curtsies I disdaine,

His quirks and decorum I hate
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The Shepheardes Calender: January    Edmund Spenser

Related:  sithes,  Thy mantle mard, wherein thou mas-kedst late.,  overhaile,  I loue thilke lasse, (alas why doe I loue?),  Albee my loue he seeke with dayly suit:,  And laughes the songes, that Colin Clout doth make.,  Ah God, that loue should breede both ioy and payne.,  As on your boughes the ysicles depend.,  A thousand sithes I curse that carefull hower,,  Wherein I sawe so fayre a sight, as shee.,  His clownish gifts,  Shepheards deuise she hateth as the snake,,  Yet for thou pleasest not, where most I would:,  Sere,  Colins Embleme.,  Yet all for naught: [such] sight hath bred my bane.,  All so my lustfull leafe is drye and sere,  His kiddes, his cracknelles, and his early fruit.,  Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue,,  And now is come thy wynters stormy state,,  Virgil,  It is not Hobbinol, wherefore I plaine,,  Stoure,  Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted,,  And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne?),  My musing mynd, yet canst not, when thou should:,  couth,  Whilome thy fresh spring flowrd, and after hasted,  Both pype and Muse, shall sore the while abye.,  Pastoral,  The Shepheardes Calender: January,  Wherefore my pype, albee rude Pan thou please,,  Hobbinol,  And eke tenne thousand sithes I blesse the stoure,,  Thy sommer prowde with Daffadillies dight.,  I loue,  And thou vnlucky Muse, that wontst to ease,  auaile,  Ah foolish Hobbinol, thy gyfts bene vayne:,  Wherein I longd the neighbour towne to see:,  Art made a myrrhour, to behold my plight:,  EK's gloss,  So broke his oaten pype, and downe dyd lye.,  My timely buds with wayling all are wasted:,  Colin them gives to Rosalind againe.,  John Milton,  And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,,  Colin clout,  neighbour towne,  With breathed sighes is blowne away, & blasted,,  The blossome, which my braunch of youth did beare,,  vnnethes,  Rosalind,  And of my rurall musick holdeth scorne.,  Epic,  Edmund Spenser,  Teaching notes, 10 Sept. 2014