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The Works of Edmund Spenser

A Variorum Edition: Edited by Edwin Greenlaw: Charles Grosvenor Osgood: Frederick Morgan Padelford: Ray Heffner
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)

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VOLUME ONE THE MINOR POEMS
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VOLUME TWO THE MINOR POEMS
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A THEATRE wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous Worldlings, As also the greate ioyes and plesures which the faithfull do enioy.
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Complaints.
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AMORETTI AND Epithalamion.
  
[dedication]
  
G: W. senior, to the Author
  
[Ah Colin, whether on the lowly plaine]
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Amoretti.
 I. 
SONNET. I.
 II. 
SONNET. II.
 III. 
SONNET. III.
 IIII. 
SONNET. IIII.
 V. 
SONNET. V.
 VI. 
SONNET. VI.
 VII. 
SONNET. VII.
 VIII. 
SONNET. VIII.
 IX. 
SONNET. IX.
 X. 
SONNET. X.
 XI. 
SONNET. XI.
 XII. 
SONNET. XII.
 XIII. 
SONNET. XIII.
 XIIII. 
SONNET. XIIII.
 XV. 
SONNET. XV.
 XVI. 
SONNET. XVI.
 XVII. 
SONNET. XVII.
 XVIII. 
SONNET. XVIII.
 XIX. 
SONNET. XIX.
 XX. 
SONNET. XX.
 XXI. 
SONNET. XXI.
 XXII. 
SONNET. XXII.
 XXIII. 
SONNET. XXIII.
 XXIIII. 
SONNET. XXIIII.
 XXV. 
SONNET. XXV.
 XXVI. 
SONNET. XXVI.
 XXVII. 
SONNET. XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
SONNET. XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
SONNET. XXIX.
 XXX. 
SONNET. XXX.
 XXXI. 
SONNET. XXXI.
 XXXII. 
SONNET. XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
SONNET. XXXIII.
 XXXIIII. 
SONNET. XXXIIII.
 XXXV. 
SONNET. XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
SONNET. XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
SONNET. XXXVII.
 XXXVIII. 
SONNET. XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
SONNET. XXXIX.
 XL. 
SONNET. XL.
 XLI. 
SONNET. XLI.
 XLII. 
SONNET. XLII.
 XLIII. 
SONNET. XLIII.
 XLIIII. 
SONNET. XLIIII.
 XLV. 
SONNET. XLV.
 XLVI. 
SONNET. XLVI.
 XLVII. 
SONNET. XLVII.
 XLVIII. 
SONNET. XLVIII.
 XLIX. 
SONNET. XLIX.
 L. 
SONNET. L.
 LI. 
SONNET. LI.
 LII. 
SONNET. LII.
 LIII. 
SONNET. LIII.
 LIIII. 
SONNET. LIIII.
 LV. 
SONNET. LV.
 LVI. 
SONNET. LVI.
 LVII. 
SONNET. LVII.
 LVIII. 
SONNET. LVIII. By her that is most assured to her selfe.
 LIX. 
SONNET. LIX.
 LX. 
SONNET. LX.
 LXI. 
SONNET. LXI.
 LXII. 
SONNET. LXII.
 LXIII. 
SONNET. LXIII.
 LXIIII. 
SONNET. LXIIII.
 LXV. 
SONNET. LXV.
 LXVI. 
SONNET. LXVI.
 LXVII. 
SONNET. LXVII.
 LXVIII. 
SONNET. LXVIII.
 LXIX. 
SONNET. LXIX.
 LXX. 
SONNET. LXX.
 LXXI. 
SONNET. LXXI.
 LXXII. 
SONNET. LXXII.
 LXXIII. 
SONNET. LXXIII.
 LXXIIII. 
SONNET. LXXIIII.
 LXXV. 
SONNET. LXXV.
 LXXVI. 
SONNET. LXXVI.
 LXXVII. 
SONNET. LXXVII.
 LXXVIII. 
SONNET. LXXVIII.
 LXXIX. 
SONNET. LXXIX.
 LXXX. 
SONNET. LXXX.
 LXXXI. 
SONNET. LXXXI.
 LXXXII. 
SONNET. LXXXII.
 LXXXIII. 
SONNET. LXXXIII.
 LXXXIIII. 
SONNET. LXXXIIII.
 LXXXV. 
SONNET. LXXXV.
 LXXXVI. 
SONNET. LXXXVI.
 LXXXVII. 
SONNET. LXXXVII.
 LXXXVIII. 
SONNET. LXXXVIII.
 LXXXIX. 
SONNET. LXXXIX.
  
[Anacreontics]
  
Epithalamion.
  
Prothalamion
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Commendatory Sonnets.
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Fragments.
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[VOLUMES THREE–SIX]

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SONNET. XXIII.

[Penelope for her Vlisses sake]

Penelope for her Vlisses sake,
Deuiz'd a Web her wooers to deceaue:
in which the worke that she all day did make
the same at night she did againe vnreaue:
Such subtile craft my Damzell doth conceaue,
th'importune suit of my desire to shonne:
for all that I in many dayes doo weaue,
in one short houre I find by her vndonne.
So when I thinke to end that I begonne,
I must begin and neuer bring to end:
for with one looke she spils that long I sponne,
and with one word my whole years work doth rend.
Such labour like the Spyders web I fynd,
whose fruitlesse worke is broken with least wynd.
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