The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... stay the steppe , ere forced to retrate . This is the wandring wood , this Errours den , A monster vile , whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware . " " Fly , fly , " quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe ; " this is no place for ...
... stay the steppe , ere forced to retrate . This is the wandring wood , this Errours den , A monster vile , whom God and man does hate : Therefore I read beware . " " Fly , fly , " quoth then The fearefull Dwarfe ; " this is no place for ...
Page 31
... stay : Therewith enrag'd she loudly gan to bray , And turning fierce , her speckled taile advaunst , Threatning her angrie sting , him to dismay ; Who , nought aghast , his mightie hand enhaunst ; The stroke down from her head unto her ...
... stay : Therewith enrag'd she loudly gan to bray , And turning fierce , her speckled taile advaunst , Threatning her angrie sting , him to dismay ; Who , nought aghast , his mightie hand enhaunst ; The stroke down from her head unto her ...
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... stay ; For present cause was none of dread her to dismay . Shee turning backe , with ruefull countenaunce , Cride , " Mercy , mercy , Sir , vouchsafe to show On silly Dame , subiect to hard mischaunce , And to your mighty will . " Her ...
... stay ; For present cause was none of dread her to dismay . Shee turning backe , with ruefull countenaunce , Cride , " Mercy , mercy , Sir , vouchsafe to show On silly Dame , subiect to hard mischaunce , And to your mighty will . " Her ...
Page 57
... stay him to advize , But open breakes the dore in furious wize , And entring is ; when that disdainfull beast , Encountring fierce , him suddein doth surprize ; And , seizing cruell clawes on trembling brest , Under his Lordly foot him ...
... stay him to advize , But open breakes the dore in furious wize , And entring is ; when that disdainfull beast , Encountring fierce , him suddein doth surprize ; And , seizing cruell clawes on trembling brest , Under his Lordly foot him ...
Page 62
... , And on those guilefull dazed eyes of his The cloude of death did sit ; which doen away , He left him lying so , ne would no lenger stay : 37 38 39 But to the Virgin comes ; who all this while 62 C. III THE FIRST BOOK OF.
... , And on those guilefull dazed eyes of his The cloude of death did sit ; which doen away , He left him lying so , ne would no lenger stay : 37 38 39 But to the Virgin comes ; who all this while 62 C. III THE FIRST BOOK OF.
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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...