"Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side."

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Source : Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.695

Sir John Davies

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