Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AMORETTI: 41, by EDMUND SPENSER


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First Line: Is it her nature, or is it her will
Last Line: That so fayre beauty was so fowly shamed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Love – Complaints


Is it her nature, or is it her will,
To be so cruell to an humbled foe?
If nature, then she may it mend with skill,
If will, then she at will may will forgoe.
But if her nature and her wil be so,
That she will plague the man that loves her most,
And take delight t' encrease a wretches woe,
Then all her natures goodly guifts are lost;
And that same glorious beauties ydle boast
Is but a bayt such wretches to beguile,
As, being long in her loves tempest tost,
She meanes at last to make her piteous spoyle.
O fayrest fayre, let never it be named,
That so fayre beauty was so fowly shamed.





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