Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser (; born 1552 or 1553; died 13 January O.S. 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and...

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