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AMORETTI: 11 by EDMUND SPENSER

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First Line: DAILY WHEN I DO SEEK AND SUE FOR PEACE
Last Line: BUT MINE NO PRICE NOR PRAYER MAY SURCEASE.
Subject(s): LOVE – UNREQUITED;
Dayly when I do seeke and sew for peace,
And hostages doe offer for my truth,
She, cruell warriour, doth her selfe addresse
To battell, and the weary war renew'th:
Ne wilbe moov'd with reason or with rewth,
To graunt small respit to my restlesse toile;
But greedily her fell intent poursewth,
Of my poore life to make unpitteid spoile.
Yet my poore life, all sorrowes to assoyle,
I would her yield, her wrath to pacify:
But then she seekes, with torment and turmoyle,
To force me live, and will not let me dy.
All paine hath end, and every war hath peace;
But mine no price nor prayer may surcease.



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