Poem: The First was Fancy, like a lovely boy by Edmund Spenser

The First was Fancy, like a lovely boy

The first was Fancy , like a lovely boy,
Of rare aspect, and beautie without peare;
Matchable either to that ympe of Troy ,
Whom Joue did love, and chose his cup to beare,
Or that same daintie lad, which waas so deare
To Great Alcides , that when as he dyde,
He wailed womanlike with many a teare,
And every wood, and every valley wyde
He fild with Hylas name, the Nymphes eke Hylas cryde.

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love poem