Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) English poet
Lines on his Promised Pension; reported in Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol ii, page 379, and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“So I told them in rhyme,
For of rhymes I had store.”
St. 1. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
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For of rhymes I had store." by Robert Southey?
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