The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... nigh forgotten your Faerie Queene : howbeit , by good chaunce I have nowe sent hir home at the laste , neither in better nor worse case than I founde hir . And must you of necessitie have my judgment of hir in deede ? To be plaine . I ...
... nigh forgotten your Faerie Queene : howbeit , by good chaunce I have nowe sent hir home at the laste , neither in better nor worse case than I founde hir . And must you of necessitie have my judgment of hir in deede ? To be plaine . I ...
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... nigh at hand , A shadie grove not farr away they spide , That promist ayde the tempest to withstand ; Whose loftie trees , yclad with sommers pride , Did spred so broad , that heavens light did hide , Not perceable with power of any ...
... nigh at hand , A shadie grove not farr away they spide , That promist ayde the tempest to withstand ; Whose loftie trees , yclad with sommers pride , Did spred so broad , that heavens light did hide , Not perceable with power of any ...
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... nigh choked with the 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 ...
... nigh choked with the 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 ...
Page 38
... nigh beguiled with so goodly sight . Her all in white he clad , and over it Cast a black stole , most like to seeme for Una fit . Now when that ydle dreame was to him brought , Unto that Elfin Knight he bad him fly , Where he slept ...
... nigh beguiled with so goodly sight . Her all in white he clad , and over it Cast a black stole , most like to seeme for Una fit . Now when that ydle dreame was to him brought , Unto that Elfin Knight he bad him fly , Where he slept ...
Page 44
... nigh at hand . He , prickte with pride , And hope to winne his Ladies hearte that day , Forth spurred fast ; adowne his coursers side The red bloud trickling staind the way , as he did ride . The Knight of the Redcrosse , when him he ...
... nigh at hand . He , prickte with pride , And hope to winne his Ladies hearte that day , Forth spurred fast ; adowne his coursers side The red bloud trickling staind the way , as he did ride . The Knight of the Redcrosse , when him he ...
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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...