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It is not Hobbinol, wherefore I plaine,

It's not him, why I complain
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The Shepheardes Calender: January    Edmund Spenser

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