The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 3; Volume 75Bell and Daldy, 1800 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Amongst Amoret armes Artegall battell beheld Blandamour bloud Braggadochio brest Britomart brought Cambell CANTO chaunge chaunst Chrysaor cruell Dame Damzell daunger deare despight devize dight dismayd doth dread dreadfull Eftsoones evermore Faery knight faire faire Ladies farre fayre feare fell fight Florimell flowre gentle Glauce goodly griefe groning hand hart hath heaven hight himselfe inly knight Ladies late light litle living Malbecco Marinell mayd mighty mote nigh noble nought Paridell perill powre Proteus quight quoth rest Satyrane sayd Scudamour seem'd seemed selfe shame shee shew shield shyning sight sith skie sonne soone sore sory speare spide spright Squire steed streight stroke Sunne Talus thee thence Thereat thereof therewith things thou thought trew Triamond unto vaine vertue villeins warlike wearie weene weet wend Whilest wicked wight wize wonne wont wound wretched wyde yeeld yron
Popular passages
Page 9 - He letteth in, he letteth out to wend, All that to come into the world desire ; A thousand thousand naked babes...
Page 8 - In that same gardin all the goodly flowres, Wherewith Dame Nature doth her beautify, And decks the girlonds of her paramoures, Are fetcht: there is the first seminary Of all things that are borne to live and dye, According to their kynds.
Page 267 - There she him taught to weigh both right and wrong In equall ballance with due recompence, And equitie to measure out along According to the line of conscience...
Page 233 - An hundred Altars round about were set, All flaming with their sacrifices fire, That with the steme thereof the Temple swet, Which rould in clouds to heaven did aspire, And in them bore true lovers...
Page 16 - There in a gloomy hollow glen she found A little cottage, built of stickes and reedes In homely wize, and wald with sods around; In which a Witch did dwell, in loathly weedes And wilfull want, all carelesse of her needes; So choosing solitarie to abide Far from all neighbours, that her divelish deedus And hellish arts from people she might hide, And hurt far off unknowne whomever she envide.
Page 9 - Ne needs there Gardiner to sett or sow, To plant or prune ; for of their owne accord All things, as they created were, doe grow, And yet remember well the mighty word Which first was spoken by th...
Page 265 - Almighties stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doome aread, That furthest nations filles with awfull dread, Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so divine a read, As thy great iustice praysed over all ; The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.
Page 236 - As if some blame of evill she did feare, That in her cheekes made roses oft appeare : And her against sweet Cherefulnesse was placed, Whose eyes, like twinkling stars in evening cleare, Were deckt with smyles that all sad humors chaced, And darted forth delights the which her goodly graced.
Page 112 - And much unlike ; th' one long, the other short, And both misplast ; that, when th' one forward yode, The other backe retired and contrarie trode. " Likewise unequal! were her handes twaine ; That one did reach, the other pusht away ; That one did make, the other mard againe, And sought to bring all things unto decay ; Whereby great riches, gathered manie a day, She in short space did often bring to nought, And their...