The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5G. Bell, 1891 |
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... praise of noble fame , The onely upshot whereto he doth ayme : For all his minde on honour fixed is , To which he levels all his purposis , And in his Princes service spends his dayes , Not so much for to gaine , or for to raise ...
... praise of noble fame , The onely upshot whereto he doth ayme : For all his minde on honour fixed is , To which he levels all his purposis , And in his Princes service spends his dayes , Not so much for to gaine , or for to raise ...
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... praise , whose onely pride Is virtue to advance , and vice deride , Be with the worke of losels wit defamed , Ne let such verses Poetrie be named ! Yet he the name on him would rashly take , Maugre the sacred Muses , and it make A ...
... praise , whose onely pride Is virtue to advance , and vice deride , Be with the worke of losels wit defamed , Ne let such verses Poetrie be named ! Yet he the name on him would rashly take , Maugre the sacred Muses , and it make A ...
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... praise , the which shall never die Through your faire verses , ne in ashes rest ; If so be shrilling voyce of wight alive May reach from hence to depth of darkest hell , Then let those deep Abysses open rive , That ye may understand my ...
... praise , the which shall never die Through your faire verses , ne in ashes rest ; If so be shrilling voyce of wight alive May reach from hence to depth of darkest hell , Then let those deep Abysses open rive , That ye may understand my ...
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... praise The firie sunnes both one and other hous : But they at last , there being then not living An Hercules so ranke seed to represse , Emongst themselves with cruell furie striving , Mow'd downe themselves with slaughter mercilesse ...
... praise The firie sunnes both one and other hous : But they at last , there being then not living An Hercules so ranke seed to represse , Emongst themselves with cruell furie striving , Mow'd downe themselves with slaughter mercilesse ...
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... praise , In which all worlds felicitie had place , When gods and men my honour up did raise ? Suffis'd it not that civill warres me made The whole worlds spoile , but that this Hydra new , Of hundred Hercules to be assaide , With seven ...
... praise , In which all worlds felicitie had place , When gods and men my honour up did raise ? Suffis'd it not that civill warres me made The whole worlds spoile , but that this Hydra new , Of hundred Hercules to be assaide , With seven ...
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