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QUOTATION:Whether lying reastlesse in heavy bedde, or else
Sitting so cheerelesse at the cheerfull boorde, or else
Playing alone carelesse on hir heavenlie virginals.
ATTRIBUTION:Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599), British poet. Iambicum Trimetrum (l. 4–6).

PoEL-1. The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.
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