The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 3William Pickering, 1839 - English poetry |
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... Doth their long strife agree . O ! WHY doe wretched men so much desire To draw their dayes unto the utmost date , And doe not rather wish them soone expire ; Knowing the miserie of their estate , And thousand perills which them still ...
... Doth their long strife agree . O ! WHY doe wretched men so much desire To draw their dayes unto the utmost date , And doe not rather wish them soone expire ; Knowing the miserie of their estate , And thousand perills which them still ...
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... doth stagger here and theare . Whom so dismayd when Cambell had espide , Againe he drove at him with double might , That nought mote stay the steele , till in his side The mortall point most cruelly empight ; Where fast infixed ...
... doth stagger here and theare . Whom so dismayd when Cambell had espide , Againe he drove at him with double might , That nought mote stay the steele , till in his side The mortall point most cruelly empight ; Where fast infixed ...
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... doth lend , Strikes at an Heron with all his bodies sway , That from his force seemes nought may it defend ; The warie fowle , that spies him toward bend His dreadfull souse , avoydes it , shunning light , And maketh him his wing in ...
... doth lend , Strikes at an Heron with all his bodies sway , That from his force seemes nought may it defend ; The warie fowle , that spies him toward bend His dreadfull souse , avoydes it , shunning light , And maketh him his wing in ...
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... doth wield , Wherewith the hellish fiends he doth confound ; ) And in her other hand a cup she hild , The which was with Nepenthe to the brim upfild . [ dout . 42 Nepenthe is a drinck of soverayne grace , Devized by C. III THE FAERIE ...
... doth wield , Wherewith the hellish fiends he doth confound ; ) And in her other hand a cup she hild , The which was with Nepenthe to the brim upfild . [ dout . 42 Nepenthe is a drinck of soverayne grace , Devized by C. III THE FAERIE ...
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... doth hatred make in love to brenne , And heavy heart with comfort doth rejoyce . Who would not to this vertue rather yeeld his voice ! At last arriving by the listës side Shee with her rod did softly smite the raile , Which straight ...
... doth hatred make in love to brenne , And heavy heart with comfort doth rejoyce . Who would not to this vertue rather yeeld his voice ! At last arriving by the listës side Shee with her rod did softly smite the raile , Which straight ...
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