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Edmund Spenser Amoretti① Sonnet 75② One day I wrote her name upon the strand,?But came the waves and washèd it away:?Agayne③ I wrote it with a second hand,?But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. “Vayne man”, sayd she, “that doest in vaine assay,??A mortall thing so to immortalize, For I my selve shall lyke to this decay,??And eek my name bee wypèd out lykewize.” “Not so”, quod I, “let baser things devize??To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame:??My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,??And in the heavens wryte your glorious name. Where whenas death shall all the world subdew,??Our love shall live, and later life renew.” William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Spring① When daisies pied② and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, 5 Mocks married men; for thus sings he, ‘Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo’: Oh word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 10 And merry larks are ploughmens clocks, When turtles③ tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, 15 ‘Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo’: Oh word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! Hamlet III, I, 56-88 To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, tis a consummation Devoutly to be wishd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, theres the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: theres the respect That makes calamity of so