The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes, Volume 5Little, 1842 |
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Page 14
... tell the beawtie of my buildings fayre , Adornd with purest golde and precious stone , To tell my riches , and endowments rare , foes are now all spent and gone ; To tell my forces , matchable to none ; That by my 1 Libbard , leopard ...
... tell the beawtie of my buildings fayre , Adornd with purest golde and precious stone , To tell my riches , and endowments rare , foes are now all spent and gone ; To tell my forces , matchable to none ; That by my 1 Libbard , leopard ...
Page 20
... tell his sorrow to the listning rout Of shepheard groomes , which wont his songs to praise : Praise who so list , yet I will him dispraise , Untill he quite him of this guiltie blame : Wake , shepheards boy , at length awake for shame ...
... tell his sorrow to the listning rout Of shepheard groomes , which wont his songs to praise : Praise who so list , yet I will him dispraise , Untill he quite him of this guiltie blame : Wake , shepheards boy , at length awake for shame ...
Page 45
... telling them to blazon out their blames . So shall succeeding ages have no light Of things forepast , nor moniments of time ; And all that in this world is worthie hight Shall die in darknesse , and lie hid in slime ! Therefore I mourne ...
... telling them to blazon out their blames . So shall succeeding ages have no light Of things forepast , nor moniments of time ; And all that in this world is worthie hight Shall die in darknesse , and lie hid in slime ! Therefore I mourne ...
Page 54
... tell their Prince that learning is but vaine ; Faire Ladies loves they spot with thoughts impure , And gentle mindes with lewd delights distaine ; Clerks 2 they to loathly idlenes entice , And fill their bookes with discipline of vice ...
... tell their Prince that learning is but vaine ; Faire Ladies loves they spot with thoughts impure , And gentle mindes with lewd delights distaine ; Clerks 2 they to loathly idlenes entice , And fill their bookes with discipline of vice ...
Page 57
... To whom shall I my evill case complaine , Or tell the anguish of my inward smart , 1 Prune , trim , put in order . Ruffed , ruffled , disordered . 3 Aggrate , charm . Sith1 none is left to remedie my paine , Or THE TEARES OF THE MUSES . 57.
... To whom shall I my evill case complaine , Or tell the anguish of my inward smart , 1 Prune , trim , put in order . Ruffed , ruffled , disordered . 3 Aggrate , charm . Sith1 none is left to remedie my paine , Or THE TEARES OF THE MUSES . 57.
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