“No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd,
No arborett with painted blossoms drest
And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd
To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.”

— Edmund Spenser , The Faerie Queene

Canto 6, stanza 12
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

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English poet 1552–1599

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