The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921 - 736 pages |
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... while he acted as arbiter between the theories of Harvey and the London Areopagus , and threw off a few verses as ... Whiles the iron is hote , it is good striking , and mindes of Nobles varie as their Estates , ' he writes to Harvey ...
... while he acted as arbiter between the theories of Harvey and the London Areopagus , and threw off a few verses as ... Whiles the iron is hote , it is good striking , and mindes of Nobles varie as their Estates , ' he writes to Harvey ...
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... wet bed Doth euer wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In siluer deaw his euer - drouping hed , Whiles sad Night ouer him her mantle black doth spred . 40 Whose double gates he findeth locked fast , The Cant . I. FAERIE QVEENE .
... wet bed Doth euer wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In siluer deaw his euer - drouping hed , Whiles sad Night ouer him her mantle black doth spred . 40 Whose double gates he findeth locked fast , The Cant . I. FAERIE QVEENE .
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... whiles he liu'de , was called proud Sans foy , The eldest of three brethren , all three bred Of one bad sire , whose ... while did dwell , More busying his quicke eyes , her face to view , Then his dull eares , to heare what she did tell ...
... whiles he liu'de , was called proud Sans foy , The eldest of three brethren , all three bred Of one bad sire , whose ... while did dwell , More busying his quicke eyes , her face to view , Then his dull eares , to heare what she did tell ...
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... slept , And spoild the Priests of their habiliments , Whiles none the holy things in safety kept ; Then he by cunning sleights in at the window crept . 18 And all that he by right or wrong could Cant . III . 15 FAERIE QVEENE .
... slept , And spoild the Priests of their habiliments , Whiles none the holy things in safety kept ; Then he by cunning sleights in at the window crept . 18 And all that he by right or wrong could Cant . III . 15 FAERIE QVEENE .
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... while Amased stands , her selfe so mockt to see By him , who has the guerdon of his guile , For so misfeigning her true ... whiles life forsooke his stub- borne brest . 43 Who now is left to keepe the forlorne ma From raging spoile of ...
... while Amased stands , her selfe so mockt to see By him , who has the guerdon of his guile , For so misfeigning her true ... whiles life forsooke his stub- borne brest . 43 Who now is left to keepe the forlorne ma From raging spoile of ...
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Page 576 - Why blush ye, love, to give to me your hand, The pledge of all our band ! Sing, ye sweet Angels, Alleluya sing, That all the woods may answere, and your eccho ring.
Page 45 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold; But she no...
Page 100 - O ! th' exceeding grace Of Highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his workes with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 531 - I know not right : Whom when I asked from what place he came, And how he hight, himselfe he did ycleepe The Shepheard of the Ocean by name, And said he came far from the main-sea deepe.
Page 130 - In her left hand a cup of gold she held, And with her right the riper fruit did reach, Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, Into her cup she scruzd, with daintie breach Of her fine fingers, without fowle empeach, That so faire winepresse made the wine more sweet...
Page 371 - more happie is the state In which ye, father, here doe dwell at ease, Leading a life so free and fortunate From all the tempests of these worldly seas, Which tosse the rest in daungerous disease; Where warres, and wreckes, and wicked enmitie Doe them afflict, which no man can appease; That certes I your happinesse envie, And wish my lot were plast in such felicitie.
Page 8 - But now seemde best the person to put on Of that good knight, his late beguiled guest : In mighty armes he was yclad anon, And silver shield, upon his coward brest A bloudy crosse, and on his craven crest A bounch of haires discolourd diversly. Full jolly knight he seemde, and wel addrest, And, when he sate upon his courser free, Saint George himself ye would have deemed him to be.
Page 5 - Right well, Sir knight, ye have advised bin," Quoth then that aged man : " the way to win Is wisely to advise ; now day is spent : Therefore with me ye may take up your In For this same night.
Page 96 - But huge great yron chests and coffers strong, All bard with double bends, that none could weene Them to efforce by violence or wrong: On every side they placed were along. But all the grownd...
Page 115 - So to his crowne she him restord againe; In which he dyde, made ripe for death by eld, And after wild it should to her remaine: Who peaceably the same long time did weld, And all mens harts in dew obedience held; Till that her sisters...