"Both poles we burnt, whereon the world doeth turne, The rownd of heaven, from earth unto the skies: And nowe the seas we both intend to burne: I with my bowe, and Licia with her eyes."
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Licia (1593), sonnet 30
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Giles Fletcher the Elder
1548 – 1611
Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1548 – 1611) was an English poet and diplomat, and a member of the English Parliament. His sons Phineas and Giles the Younger were also poets.
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