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THE FAERIE QUEENE: DEDICATORY SONNET.. THE LORD OF HUNSDON by EDMUND SPENSER

Poet Analysis

First Line: RENOWMED LORD, THAT FOR YOUR WORTHINESSE
Last Line: THAT ALL POSTERITIE THY HONOR MAY REHERSE.
Subject(s): CAREY, HENRY, 1ST BARON HUNSDON;
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD
OF HUNSDON, HIGH CHAMBERLAINE
TO HER MAJESTY

RENOWMED Lord, that for your worthinesse
And noble deeds, have your deserved place
High in the favour of that Emperesse,
The worlds sole glory and her sexes grace;
Here eke of right have you a worthie place,
Both for your nearnes to that Faerie Queene,
And for your owne high merit in like cace,
Of which apparaunt proofe was to be seene,
When that tumultuous rage and fearfull deene
Of Northerne rebels ye did pacify,
And their disloiall powre defaced clene,
The record of enduring memory.
Live, Lord, for ever in this lasting verse,
That all posteritie thy honor may reherse.




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