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10/10/24

“When rocks impregnable are not so stout, / Nor gates of steel so string, but time decays?” (Shakespeare pg. 680 lines 7-8).

10/10/24

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10/10/24

10/10/24

“Much can they prayse the trees so straight and hy, / The sayling Pine, the Ceder proud and tall, / The vine-prop Elme, the Poplar never dry, / The builder Oake, sole king Forrest’s all, / The Aspine good for staves, the Cypresses funeral.” (Spencer lines 68-72)

10/29/24

“The willow worne of forlorne Paramours, / The Eugh obedient to the benders will, /The Birch for shaftes, the Sallow for the mill, / The Mirrhe sweete bleeding in the bitter wound, / The warlike Beech, the Ash for nothing ill, / The fruitfull Olive, and the Platane round, / The carver Holme, the Maple seldom inward sound.” (Spencer pg. 196 lines 75-80)

10/29/24

“They cannot find the path, which first was shown, / But wander too and fro in waves unknown, / Furthest from end then, when they nearest weenie, / That makes them doubt, their wits be not their own: / So many paths, so many turnings seen, / That which of them to take, in diverse doubt they been.” (Spencer pg. 196 lines 85-90)

10/29/24

“Prickèd with wrath and fiery fierce disdaine, / That him to follow was but fruitless paine; / Yet she her weary limbes would never rest, / But every hill and dale, each wood and plaine, / Did search, sore grievèd in her gentle Brest, / He so urgently left her, whom she lovèd best.” (Spencer pg. 203-4 lines 67-72)

10/29/24

“A virgin widow, whose deepe wounded mind / With love, long time did languish as the stricken hind” (Spencer pg. 206 lines 215-216)

10/29/24

“For he is one the truest knight alive, / Though conquered now he lie on lowly land, / And whilest him fortune favored, faire did thrive, / In bloudie field: therefore of life him not deprive.” (Spencer pg. 213 lines 330-333)

10/31/24

“From her faire head her fillet she undight, / And laid her stole aside. Her angles face / As the great eye of heaven shyned bright, / And made a sunshine in the shadie place; / Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.” (Spencer pg. 209 lines 33-36)

10/31/24

“To be partaker of her wandering woe, / More mild in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe” (Spencer pg. 214 lines 395-396)

10/31/24

“But full great pittie, that so faire a mound / Did on so weake foundation ever sit: / For on a sandie hill, that still did flit, / And fall away, it mounted was full hie, / That every breath of heaven shakèd it: / And all the hinder parts, that few could spie, / Were ruinous and old, nut painted cunningly” (SPencer pg. 215 lines 41-45)

10/31/24

“And a rich throne, as bright as sunny day, / On which there sate most brave embellished / With royall robe and gorgeous array, / A Mayden Queen, that shone as Titans ray, / In glistring gold, and peerelesse pretious stone: / Yet her bright blazing beautie did assay / To dim the rightness of her glorious throne, / As envying her selfe, that too exceeding shone.” (Spencer pg. 215 lines 67-72)

10/31/24

“And in her self-lov’d semblance tooke delight; / For she was wondrous faire, as any living wight.” (Spencer pg. 216 lines 89-90)

10/31/24

“And rapt with whirling wheeles, inflames the skyen, / With fire not made to burne, but fairely for to shyne.” (Spencer pg. 216 lines 80-81)

10/31/24

“Whose greedy lust did lacke in greatest store, / Whose need had end, but no end covetise, / Whose wealth was want, whose plants made him pore, / Who had enough, yet wishèd ever more; / A vile disease, and eke in foote and hand / A grievous gout tormented him full sore, / That well he could not touch, nor go, nor stand.” (Spencer pg. 218 lines 254-260)

10/31/24

“Whom great griefe made forget the raines to hold / Of reason rule, to see this recreant (faint-hearted), / No knight, but treachour full of false despight / And shameful treason, who through guile hath slayn / The prowest Knight, that ever field did fight.” (Spencer pg. 220 lines 363-367).

10/31/24

“Up then, up dreary Dame, of darknesse Queene, / Go gather up the reliques of thy race, / Or else goe them avenge, and let be seene, / That dreaded Night in brightest day hath place, / And can the children of faire light deface.” (Spencer pg. 224 lines 208-212)

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11/12/24

"A goodly knight, faire marching by the way / Together with his Squire, arayed meet: / His glitterand armor shined farre away, / Like glauncing light of Phoebus brightest ray; / From to to toe no place appeared bare, / Athwart his Brest a bauldrick brave he ware, / That shynd, like twinkling stars, with stons most pretious rare." (Spencer pg. 239 lines 253-261)

11/14/24

"That noble order hight of Maidenhed, / Forthwith to court of Gloriane I sped, / Of Gloriane great Queene of glory bright, / Whose kingdomes seat Cleopolis is red" (Spencer pg. 241 lines 409-412)

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11/18/24

Silent, Obedient, Private, Chaste

Wroth

-Writing, “Public”

-“Oyster” medieval slur of vagina

-Open vagina—> Writing

-Not Chaste

11/19/24

11/19/24

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11/19/24

"On top of greene Selinis all alone, / With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; / Whose tender locks do tremble every one / At every little breath that under heaven is blowne." (Spencer lines 285-288 pg. 239)

12/2/24

“I am not Covetous, but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; which is the cause, That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second; yet, I will endeavour to be, Margaret the First: and, though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own. And thus, believing, or, at least, hoping, that no Creature can, or will, Envy me for this World of mine, I remain” (Cavendish)

12/3/24

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12/3/24

“Purge an infected heart, and turn away a lascivious eye…Bad minds are discovered by bad thoughts and hearts” (Sowernam 712)

12/3/24

12/3/24

“A virgin state is crowned with much content; / It’s always happy as it’s innocent” (Philips 947 lines 5-6)

12/3/24

“Suppress wild nature if she dare rebel. / There’s no such thing as leading apes in hell.” (Philips 948 lines 15-16)

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