| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXIX. The famous warriors of antique world | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | THE FAMOUS warriors of antique world | |
| Used trophies to erect in stately wise; | |
| In which they would the records have enroll’d | |
| Of their great deeds and valorous emprize. | |
| What trophy then shall I most fit devise, | 5 |
| In which I may record the memory | |
| Of my love’s conquest, peerless beauty’s prize, | |
| Adorn’d with honour, love, and chastity! | |
| Even this verse, vow’d to eternity, | |
| Shall be thereof immortal monument; | 10 |
| And tell her praise to all posterity, | |
| That may admire such world’s rare wonderment; | |
| The happy purchase of my glorious spoil, | |
| Gotten at last with labour and long toil. | | | | |
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