The Faerie Queene. Book I. Canto I • Paragraph 2
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But for so sooth the sacred raptures which inflame The aged Poets, and the Muses throng, I feare my muse lesser mortall to blame; Yet since in latine doth my witte misse, I wil in English sing of Faery lond, Where I was bred: and in this glorious bliss,