The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... deadly Heben bowe apart , And , with thy mother mylde , come to mine ayde ; Come , both ; and with you bring triumphant Mart , In loves and gentle iollities arraid , After his murdrous spoyles and bloudie rage allayd . And with them eke ...
... deadly Heben bowe apart , And , with thy mother mylde , come to mine ayde ; Come , both ; and with you bring triumphant Mart , In loves and gentle iollities arraid , After his murdrous spoyles and bloudie rage allayd . And with them eke ...
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... deadly bale , Ay wont in desert darknes to remaine , 16 Where plain none might her see , nor she see any plaine . די Which when the valiant Elfe perceiv'd , he lept As Lyon fierce upon the flying pray , And with his trenchand blade her ...
... deadly bale , Ay wont in desert darknes to remaine , 16 Where plain none might her see , nor she see any plaine . די Which when the valiant Elfe perceiv'd , he lept As Lyon fierce upon the flying pray , And with his trenchand blade her ...
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... deadly stinke , His forces faile , ne can no lenger fight . Whose corage when the Feend perceivd to shrinke , She poured forth out of her hellish sinke Her fruitfull cursed spawne of Serpents small , ( Deformed monsters , fowle , and ...
... deadly stinke , His forces faile , ne can no lenger fight . Whose corage when the Feend perceivd to shrinke , She poured forth out of her hellish sinke Her fruitfull cursed spawne of Serpents small , ( Deformed monsters , fowle , and ...
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... deadly all with troublous feare Gathred themselves about her body round , Weening their wonted entrance to have found At her wide mouth ; but , being there withstood , They flocked all about her bleeding wound , And sucked up their ...
... deadly all with troublous feare Gathred themselves about her body round , Weening their wonted entrance to have found At her wide mouth ; but , being there withstood , They flocked all about her bleeding wound , And sucked up their ...
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... deadly sleepe he findes , He to his studie goes ; and there amiddes His Magick bookes , and artes of sundrie kindes , He seeks out mighty charmes to trouble sleepy minds . Then choosing out few words most horrible , ( Let none them read ...
... deadly sleepe he findes , He to his studie goes ; and there amiddes His Magick bookes , and artes of sundrie kindes , He seeks out mighty charmes to trouble sleepy minds . Then choosing out few words most horrible , ( Let none them read ...
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Archimago armes Beast behold blood brest brond brought CANTO chaunce corage courser cruell Dame deadly deare death delight despight doen doest doth dread dreadfull Duessa EDMUND SPENSER Eftsoones Elfin Knight eternall Faerie Queene Faery Knight faire faire Lady Fairy false fast fayre feare fitt flowre fowle fownd gentle goodly grace griefe grone hand hart hast hath heaven heavenly hight himselfe honour Lady late light litle living Lord mightie mote never nigh noble nought poem poet powre Pyrochles quoth rage Redcrosse Redcrosse Knight seemd seeme sence shee Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight Sir Guyon Sir Philip Sidney Sith sonne soone sore speach Spenser spide spright steed suddein sweet syre thee thereof thou Todd trew unto vaine verse vertues Villein wandring warre wearie weene whenas wight wondrous wonne wont wound wrath wretched wyde ydle yron
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Page 61 - O then too weake and feeble was the forse 370 Of salvage beast, his puissance to withstand: For he was strong, and of so mightie corse, As ever wielded speare in warlike hand, And feates of armes did wisely understand. Eftsoones he perced through his chaufed chest...