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First Line: Not all the shippes bye venice quay
Last Line: Can halve the wisdom in her kenne.
Subject(s): Love; Praise


NOT all the shippes bye Venice quay,
Nor oyster-shells bye Norman shore,
Nor all the swannes in Temmes that be
With archéd neck and ebon oar,
Can reach the tallie of her lore.

Not wooinges made in holye guise,
Nor pryde of princelynges got from Spayne,
Nor all the lure of cunnynge lies,
Nor all the golde that misers gaine,
Can match the brightnesse of her brayne.

Not all the beasts bye man untamed,
Nor all the wiles of warrynge men,
Nor all reprieves bye Rome proclaimed,
Nor all the words ere writ by penne,
Can halve the wisdom in her kenne.





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