The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5G. Bell, 1891 - Poetry |
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... brest ; The which to banish with faire exercise Of knightly feates , he daylie doth devise : Now menaging the mouthes of stubborne steedes , Now practising the proofe of warlike deedes , Now his bright armes assaying , now his speare ...
... brest ; The which to banish with faire exercise Of knightly feates , he daylie doth devise : Now menaging the mouthes of stubborne steedes , Now practising the proofe of warlike deedes , Now his bright armes assaying , now his speare ...
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... brest Never crept thought of honor , nor brave gest , Who will not venture life a King to be , And rather rule and raigne in soveraign see , Than dwell in dust inglorious and bace , Where none shall name the number of his place ? One ...
... brest Never crept thought of honor , nor brave gest , Who will not venture life a King to be , And rather rule and raigne in soveraign see , Than dwell in dust inglorious and bace , Where none shall name the number of his place ? One ...
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... brest To scorne all difference of great and small , Sith that the greatest often are opprest , And unawares doe into daunger fall . And ye , that read these ruines tragicall , Learne by their losse to love the low degree ; And , if that ...
... brest To scorne all difference of great and small , Sith that the greatest often are opprest , And unawares doe into daunger fall . And ye , that read these ruines tragicall , Learne by their losse to love the low degree ; And , if that ...
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... brest did coure , And seem'd both milder beasts and fiercer foes Alike with equall ravine to devoure . Much was I mazde to see this monsters kinde In hundred formes to change his fearefull hew ; When as at length I saw the wrathfull ...
... brest did coure , And seem'd both milder beasts and fiercer foes Alike with equall ravine to devoure . Much was I mazde to see this monsters kinde In hundred formes to change his fearefull hew ; When as at length I saw the wrathfull ...
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... happie rest , Where my free spirite might not any moe Be vext with sights that doo her peace molest . And ye , faire Ladie , in whose bounteous brest 3 7 All heavenly grace and vertue shrined is , When ye 84 THE VISIONS OF PETRARCH .
... happie rest , Where my free spirite might not any moe Be vext with sights that doo her peace molest . And ye , faire Ladie , in whose bounteous brest 3 7 All heavenly grace and vertue shrined is , When ye 84 THE VISIONS OF PETRARCH .
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