Quote#Love
I hate the day, because it lendeth light
Quote byEdmund Spenser · 1552–1599
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Daphnaida (1591 or '92), line 407.
English (original)
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
— Edmund Spenser
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Uncouthe, unkiste, sayde the olde famous poete Chaucer.
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
So love is Lord of all the world by right.
So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodgepodge of al other speches.