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