At length they all to mery London came

Quote byEdmund Spenser · 1552–1599

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prothalamion (1596), Line 127.

English (original)

At length they all to mery London came, To mery London, my most kindly Nurse, That to me gave this lifes first native sourse.

— Edmund Spenser

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I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

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So love is Lord of all the world by right.

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Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.

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Uncouthe, unkiste, sayde the olde famous poete Chaucer.

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