The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 1William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... wise Whylom the pillours of th ' earth did sustaine , And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise And in the neck of all the world to rayne ; Oft from those grave affaires were wont abstaine , With the sweet Lady Muses for to play : So ...
... wise Whylom the pillours of th ' earth did sustaine , And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise And in the neck of all the world to rayne ; Oft from those grave affaires were wont abstaine , With the sweet Lady Muses for to play : So ...
Page 24
... wise itselfe will forth display . To all the gratious and beautifull Ladies in the Court . THE Chian Peincter , when he was requir'd To pourtraict Venus in her perfect hew ; To make his worke more absolute , desir'd Of all the fairest ...
... wise itselfe will forth display . To all the gratious and beautifull Ladies in the Court . THE Chian Peincter , when he was requir'd To pourtraict Venus in her perfect hew ; To make his worke more absolute , desir'd Of all the fairest ...
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... wise , He stayde his hand ; and gan himselfe advise Το prove his sense , and tempt her faigned truth . Wringing her hands , in wemens pitteous wise , Tho can she weepe , to stirre up gentle ruth Both for her noble blood , and for her ...
... wise , He stayde his hand ; and gan himselfe advise Το prove his sense , and tempt her faigned truth . Wringing her hands , in wemens pitteous wise , Tho can she weepe , to stirre up gentle ruth Both for her noble blood , and for her ...
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... wise , As ever Proteus to himselfe could make : Sometime a fowle , sometime a fish in lake , Now like a foxe , now like a dragon fell ; That of himselfe he ofte for feare would quake , And oft would flie away . O who can tell 10 The ...
... wise , As ever Proteus to himselfe could make : Sometime a fowle , sometime a fish in lake , Now like a foxe , now like a dragon fell ; That of himselfe he ofte for feare would quake , And oft would flie away . O who can tell 10 The ...
Page 68
... wise ; Ne other grace vouchsafed them to showe Of Princesse worthy ; scarse them bad arise . Her Lordes and Ladies all this while devise Themselves to setten forth to straungers sight : Some frounce their curled heare in courtly guise ...
... wise ; Ne other grace vouchsafed them to showe Of Princesse worthy ; scarse them bad arise . Her Lordes and Ladies all this while devise Themselves to setten forth to straungers sight : Some frounce their curled heare in courtly guise ...
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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...