Poem 4

YE Nymphes of Mulla which with carefull heed,

The siluer scaly trouts doe tend full well,

and greedy pikes which vse therein to feed,

(Those trouts and pikes all others doo excell)

And ye likewise which keepe the rushy lake,

Where none doo fishes take.

Bynd vp the locks the which hang scatterd light,

And in his waters which your mirror make,

Behold your faces as the christall bright,

That when you come whereas my loue doth lie,

No blemish she may spie.

And eke ye lightfoot mayds which keepe the dore,

That on the hoary mountayne vie to towre,

And the wylde wolues which seeke them to deuoure,

With your steele darts doo chace fro[m] comming neer

Be also present heere,

To helpe to decke her and to help to sing,

That all the woods may answer and your eccho ring.

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (born 1552/53, London, England—died January 13, 1599, London) English poet whose long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene is one of the greatest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza. In 1598 rebels attacked and burned Kilcolman Castle, forcing Spenser and his family to flee to Cork. In December he returned to England, where he delivered a report on the Irish crisis at Whitehall on Christmas Eve. Three weeks later, on 13 January 1599, he died, perhaps of illness brought on by exhaustion. He was buried soon after in the south transept of Westminster Abbey in the Poets’ Corner.

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