The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... gentle swayne : In his right hand he held a trembling dart , Whose fellow he before had sent apart ; And in his left he held a sharpe bore - speare , With which he wont to launch the salvage hart Of many a Lyon and of many a Beare ...
... gentle swayne : In his right hand he held a trembling dart , Whose fellow he before had sent apart ; And in his left he held a sharpe bore - speare , With which he wont to launch the salvage hart Of many a Lyon and of many a Beare ...
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... gentle swaine ! Why hath thy hand too bold itselfe embrewed In blood of Knight , the which by thee is slaine , By thee no Knight ; which armes impugneth plaine ! " " Certes , " said he , " loth were I to have broken The Law of Armes ...
... gentle swaine ! Why hath thy hand too bold itselfe embrewed In blood of Knight , the which by thee is slaine , By thee no Knight ; which armes impugneth plaine ! " " Certes , " said he , " loth were I to have broken The Law of Armes ...
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... gentle Boy , Which had himselfe so stoutly well acquit ; Seeing his face so lovely sterne and coy , And hearing th ' answeres of his pregnant wit , He praysd it much , and much admyred it ; That sure he weend him born of noble blood ...
... gentle Boy , Which had himselfe so stoutly well acquit ; Seeing his face so lovely sterne and coy , And hearing th ' answeres of his pregnant wit , He praysd it much , and much admyred it ; That sure he weend him born of noble blood ...
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... gentle thewes and such like seemly leres : Mongst which my most delight hath alwaies been To hunt the salvage chace , amongst my peres , Of all that raungeth in the forrest greene , Of which none is to me unknowne that ev'r was seene ...
... gentle thewes and such like seemly leres : Mongst which my most delight hath alwaies been To hunt the salvage chace , amongst my peres , Of all that raungeth in the forrest greene , Of which none is to me unknowne that ev'r was seene ...
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... gentle hart For that displeasure ; and thinke what reliefe Were best devise for this your Lovers smart ; And how ye may him hence , and to what part , Convay to be recur'd . " She thankt him deare , Both for that newes he did to her ...
... gentle hart For that displeasure ; and thinke what reliefe Were best devise for this your Lovers smart ; And how ye may him hence , and to what part , Convay to be recur'd . " She thankt him deare , Both for that newes he did to her ...
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