| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 55012 |
| QUOTATION: | Ye learned sisters which have oftentimes
Beene to me ayding, others to adorne:
Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes,
That even the greatest did not greatly scorne
To heare theyr names sung in your simple layes, |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599), British poet. Epithalamion (l. 1–5). . .
The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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