The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Sir Thomas Mallory

Le Morte d'Arthur

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Topic

May Spring Seasons

Author

Sir Thomas Mallory

Source

Le Morte d'Arthur

Language

English

Time

1485 1480s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Malory, Thomas. Le Morte d'Arthur. London: William Caxton, 1485, bk. 18, ch. 25.

Current Citation

Malory, Thomas. Le Morte D'Arthur. Vol. 2, Penguin Classics, 1970, bk. 18, ch. 25.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
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And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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Topic
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1609 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 18.

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Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

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St. Thomas Aquinas
Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1.