The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5G. Bell, 1891 - Poetry |
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... pleasure Like two free men , and make our ease a treasure . 160 Free men some beggers call , but they be free , And they which call them so more beggers bee ; For they doo swinke and sweate to feed the other , Who live like Lords of ...
... pleasure Like two free men , and make our ease a treasure . 160 Free men some beggers call , but they be free , And they which call them so more beggers bee ; For they doo swinke and sweate to feed the other , Who live like Lords of ...
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... pleasure what they wolde . Of which whenas they feasted had their fill , For a full complement of all their ill , They stole away , and tooke their hastie flight , Carried in clowdes of all - concealing night . 330 340 350 So was the ...
... pleasure what they wolde . Of which whenas they feasted had their fill , For a full complement of all their ill , They stole away , and tooke their hastie flight , Carried in clowdes of all - concealing night . 330 340 350 So was the ...
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... pleasure see , And then ye will ( I hope ) well mooved bee . " Which when the Priest beheld , he vew'd it nere , As if therein some text he studying were , But little els ( God wote ) could thereof skill ; For read he could not evidence ...
... pleasure see , And then ye will ( I hope ) well mooved bee . " Which when the Priest beheld , he vew'd it nere , As if therein some text he studying were , But little els ( God wote ) could thereof skill ; For read he could not evidence ...
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... pleasure , would he sometimes scorne A pandares coate ( so basely was he borne ) . Thereto he could fine loving verses frame , And play the Poet oft . But ah ! for shame , Let not sweete Poets praise , whose onely pride Is virtue to ...
... pleasure , would he sometimes scorne A pandares coate ( so basely was he borne ) . Thereto he could fine loving verses frame , And play the Poet oft . But ah ! for shame , Let not sweete Poets praise , whose onely pride Is virtue to ...
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... pleasures , And with their spoyles enlarg'd his private treasures . No care of justice , nor no rule of reason , No temperance , nor no regard of season , Did thenceforth ever enter in his minde ; But crueltie , the signe of currish ...
... pleasures , And with their spoyles enlarg'd his private treasures . No care of justice , nor no rule of reason , No temperance , nor no regard of season , Did thenceforth ever enter in his minde ; But crueltie , the signe of currish ...
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Alcyon Arthur Gorges aspyre Astrophel Astrophill beames beasts beautie behold bowre brest bright celestiall Colin cruell Cynthia dart dayes deare death delight devize dight doth dreadfull earth eccho ring EDMUND SPENSER eternall eyes faire fairest farre fayre feare flie flowres Foxe fyre gentle glorie glorious Gods goodly grace griefe grone happie hart hast hath heart heaven heavenly hight himselfe honour immortall Jove light live Lord LYCON lyke mightie mourne Muse mynd never night noble nought Nymphes paine peerlesse price plaine pleasure powre praise prayses pride quoth rest Rome scorne seeke seem'd shepheards shew shyning sight sing Sith skie song SONNET sorrow soule spide spoyle spright Sunne sweet thee thereof theyr things thought trew unto vaine Venus vertue weene weepe Whilest wight wings wize wondrous wont woods worthie wretched