The faerie queene : Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues . loues and phabm kindc; The which in floods and fountaincs doc appere, Andall mankindc do nourifh with their waters clerc. The which, more eath it were for mortall wight, the fands, or count the ftarres on ought more hard, then thinke to reckon well I wotc,that thcfe which I prefent at this ^eat folemnity:And there amongft the reft,the mother was .Of luckcIelTe LMannellCyModoce^Which, for my Mufe her felfe now tyred has, Vnto an otJicr Canto I will ouerpas. Cant. XIL UH^rtn for l

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The faerie queene : Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues . loues and phabm kindc; The which in floods and fountaincs doc appere, Andall mankindc do nourifh with their waters clerc. The which, more eath it were for mortall wight, the fands, or count the ftarres on ought more hard, then thinke to reckon well I wotc,that thcfe which I prefent at this ^eat folemnity:And there amongft the reft,the mother was .Of luckcIelTe LMannellCyModoce^Which, for my Mufe her felfe now tyred has, Vnto an otJicr Canto I will ouerpas. Cant. XIL UH^rtn for lone ofFlonmeU, lyi Unguorrvaflcs hi4 hfe:The Nymph h^ mother getuth her^ ^nd^iuei to him for rvtfe. What an endleffe worke haue I in hand. To count the feas abundant progeny, Whofe fruitfull feede farre paflTeth thofe in land. And alfo thofe which wonne in riVazurc sky ? For much more eath to tell the ftarres onhy, Albe they endlede feeme in eftimation, Thento recount the Seaspofterity: So fertile be the flouds in generation,Sohugc their numbers^,and fo numbcrlenc thcirnanon,.

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