The Faerie Queene. Book I. Canto I • Paragraph 1
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Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, That sleepe and feed on Lords and Ladies glosse, Great Bardenes bane, and gayne of Giddy taske, Fain would I climb, yet fear I to losse my losse, And to the sons d'arte singe a stately song: