Book I of the Faery QueeneClarendon Press, 1881 - 257 pages |
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Page xxviii
... faire Ladie in mourning weedes , riding on a white Asse , with a dwarfe behind her leading a warlike steed , that bore the Armes of a knight , and his speare in the dwarfes hand . She falling before the Queene of Faeries , complayned ...
... faire Ladie in mourning weedes , riding on a white Asse , with a dwarfe behind her leading a warlike steed , that bore the Armes of a knight , and his speare in the dwarfes hand . She falling before the Queene of Faeries , complayned ...
Page xxix
... faire Lady , called Amoretta , whom he kept in most grievous torment . Whereupon Sir Scudamour , the lover of that Lady , presently tooke on him that adventure . But beeing unable to performe it by reason of the hard Enchauntments ...
... faire Lady , called Amoretta , whom he kept in most grievous torment . Whereupon Sir Scudamour , the lover of that Lady , presently tooke on him that adventure . But beeing unable to performe it by reason of the hard Enchauntments ...
Page xxx
... stowrę , When so thee list thy loftie Muse to raise : Yet , till that thou thy poeme wilt make knowne , Let thy faire Cinthias praises be thus rudely showne . E. S. ΤΟ THE MOST HIGH , MIGHTIE , AND MAGNIFICENT EMPERESSE.
... stowrę , When so thee list thy loftie Muse to raise : Yet , till that thou thy poeme wilt make knowne , Let thy faire Cinthias praises be thus rudely showne . E. S. ΤΟ THE MOST HIGH , MIGHTIE , AND MAGNIFICENT EMPERESSE.
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... faire beames into my feeble eyne , And raise my thoughts , too humble and too vile , To thinke of that true glorious type of tnine , The argument of mine afflicted stile : The which to heare , vouchsafe , O dearest dread , a while ...
... faire beames into my feeble eyne , And raise my thoughts , too humble and too vile , To thinke of that true glorious type of tnine , The argument of mine afflicted stile : The which to heare , vouchsafe , O dearest dread , a while ...
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... faire did sitt , As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt . 2 And on his brest a bloudie crosse he bore , The deare remembrance of his dying Lord , For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore , And dead as living ever ...
... faire did sitt , As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt . 2 And on his brest a bloudie crosse he bore , The deare remembrance of his dying Lord , For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore , And dead as living ever ...
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Archimago Ariosto armes Bartsch beast blood bloud Brachet brest CANTO Chanson de Roland Chaucer Cotgrave cruell dame deadly deare death Dict Diez doth dragon dread dreadfull elfin knight English eternall evil eyes Faery Queene faire fast feare feeble fell fierce fight gentle Gloss glossary goodly Goth grace griefe groning hand hart hath heaven heavenly hight house of Pride Icel king lady Latin light lord Lord Leicester meaning mighty Milton Nares never nigh nought Ovid paine Paynim phrase poets powre pray pret pride Prince Arthur proud quoth rage Red Cross Knight seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight Skeat s.v. sonne sore Spenser spide Stratmann sweet thee thence thou tree truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
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Page 4 - A lovely ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly asse more white then snow ; Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 168 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 5 - When, weening to returne whence they did stray, They cannot finde that path, which first was showne But wander too and fro in waies unknowne, Furthest from end then, when they neerest weene, That makes them doubt their wits be not their owne : So many pathes, so many turnings seene, That which of them to take, in diverse doubt they been.
Page 11 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people, that did pas In travell to and froe: a little wyde There was an holy chappell edifyde, Wherein the hermite dewly wont to say His holy things each morne and eventyde : Thereby a christall streame did gently play, Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway.
Page 114 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright. In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part ? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art?
Page 44 - Yet childe ne kinsman living had he none To leave them to ; but thorough daily care To get, and nightly feare to lose his owne, He led a wretched life, unto himselfe unknowne.
Page xxviii - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person, upstarting, desired that adventure : whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.
Page 15 - BY this the Northerne wagoner had set His sevenfold teme behind the stedfast starre That was in Ocean waves yet never wet, But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre To al that in the wide deepe wandring arre ; And chearefull Chaunticlere with his note shrill Had warned once, that Phoebus...
Page 40 - High above all a cloth of state was spred, And a rich throne, as bright as sunny day ; On which there sate, most brave embellished With royall robes and gorgeous array, A mayden Queene...
Page 163 - In that Faery Queene I meane glory in my generall intention, but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious person of our soveraine the Queene, and her kingdome in Faery Land.