The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... hast formed right true Vertues face herein , Vertue herselfe can best discerne , to whom they written bin . If thou hast Beauty praysd , let her sole lookes divine Judge if ought therein be amis , and mend it by her eine . If Chastitie ...
... hast formed right true Vertues face herein , Vertue herselfe can best discerne , to whom they written bin . If thou hast Beauty praysd , let her sole lookes divine Judge if ought therein be amis , and mend it by her eine . If Chastitie ...
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... hast thy brave mansione : There indeede dwel faire Graces many one , And gentle Nymphes , delights of learned wits ; And in thy person , without paragone , All goodly bountie and true honour sits . Such therefore , as that wasted soyl ...
... hast thy brave mansione : There indeede dwel faire Graces many one , And gentle Nymphes , delights of learned wits ; And in thy person , without paragone , All goodly bountie and true honour sits . Such therefore , as that wasted soyl ...
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... famous gage ; And lately shakt the Lusitanian soile . Sith then each where thou hast dispredd thy fame , Love him that hath eternized your name . To the Right Noble and Valorous Knight , Sir Walter 22 VERSES ADDRESSED BY THE AUTHOR .
... famous gage ; And lately shakt the Lusitanian soile . Sith then each where thou hast dispredd thy fame , Love him that hath eternized your name . To the Right Noble and Valorous Knight , Sir Walter 22 VERSES ADDRESSED BY THE AUTHOR .
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... hast to greet his victorie ; 27 And saide , “ Faire Knight , borne under happie starre , Who see your vanquisht foes before you lye ; Well worthie be you of that Armory , Wherein ye have great glory wonne this day , And proov'd your ...
... hast to greet his victorie ; 27 And saide , “ Faire Knight , borne under happie starre , Who see your vanquisht foes before you lye ; Well worthie be you of that Armory , Wherein ye have great glory wonne this day , And proov'd your ...
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... hast unto his Lord , where he him left afore . Who all this while , with charmes and hidden artes , Had made a Lady of that other Spright , And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender partes , So lively , and so like in all mens sight , That ...
... hast unto his Lord , where he him left afore . Who all this while , with charmes and hidden artes , Had made a Lady of that other Spright , And fram'd of liquid ayre her tender partes , So lively , and so like in all mens sight , That ...
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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...