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Sonnet II*.

By Edmund Spenser

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Whoso wil seeke, by right deserts, t'attaine     Unto the type of true nobility,     And not by painted shewes, and titles vaine,     Derived farre from famous auncestrie,     Behold them both in their right visnomy**     Here truly pourtray'd as they ought to be,     And striving both for termes of dignitie,     To be advanced highest in degree.     And when thou doost with equall insight see     The ods twist both, of both then deem aright,     And chuse the better of them both to thee;     But thanks to him that it deserves behight@:         To Nenna first, that first this worke created,         And next to Iones, that truely it translated.

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About Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) was an English poet best known for "The Faerie Queene," an allegorical epic celebrating the Tudor dynasty. He invented the Spenserian stanza and is considered one of the greatest English poets of the Renaissance.

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