What Ladie is that

What Ladie is that which doth inrich the hand
Of yonder Knight?
I know not sir
O she doth teach the Torches to burne bright:
It seemes she hangs vpon the cheeke of night,
As a rich Iewel in an aethiops eare:
Beauty too rich for vse, for earth too deare:
So shewes a Snowy Doue trooping with Crowes,
As yonder Lady ore her fellowes showes;
The measure done, Ile watch her place of stand,
And touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart loue till now, forsweare it sight,
For I neuer saw true Beauty till this night

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English poet and intellectual, author of "Paradise Lost," considered the greatest epic poem in the English language.

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