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AMORETTI: 74 by EDMUND SPENSER

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First Line: MOST HAPPY LETTERS! FRAMED BY SKILLFUL TRADE
Last Line: THAT THREE SUCH GRACES DID UNTO ME GIVE.
Subject(s): WOMEN;
Most happy letters! fram'd by skilfull trade,
With which that happy name was first desynd,
The which three times thrise happy hath me made,
With guifts of body, fortune, and of mind.
The first my being to me gave by kind,
From mothers womb deriv'd by dew descent:
The second is my sovereigne Queene most kind,
That honour and large richesse to me lent:
The third, my love, my lives last ornament,
By whom my spirit out of dust was raysed,
To speake her prayse and glory excellent,
Of all alive most worthy to be praysed.
Ye three Elizabeths, for ever live,
That three such graces did unto me give.



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