The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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... fell and furious , That daunted with their forces hideous , Their steeds do stagger , and amazed stand , And eke themselues too rudely rigorous , Astonied with the stroke of their owne hand , Do backe rebut , and each to other yeeldeth ...
... fell and furious , That daunted with their forces hideous , Their steeds do stagger , and amazed stand , And eke themselues too rudely rigorous , Astonied with the stroke of their owne hand , Do backe rebut , and each to other yeeldeth ...
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... fell A seely Lambe farre from the flocke does take , Of whom he meanes his bloudie feast to make , A Lyon spyes fast running towards him , The innocent pray in hast he does forsake , Which quit from death yet quakes in euery lim With ...
... fell A seely Lambe farre from the flocke does take , Of whom he meanes his bloudie feast to make , A Lyon spyes fast running towards him , The innocent pray in hast he does forsake , Which quit from death yet quakes in euery lim With ...
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... fell he grew , That his owne sire and maister of his guise Did often tremble at his horrid vew , And oft for dread of hurt would him aduise , The angry beasts not rashly to despise , Nor too much to prouoke ; for he would learne The ...
... fell he grew , That his owne sire and maister of his guise Did often tremble at his horrid vew , And oft for dread of hurt would him aduise , The angry beasts not rashly to despise , Nor too much to prouoke ; for he would learne The ...
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... fell , To thunder blowes , and fiersly to assaile Each other bent his enimy to quell , [ maile , That with their force they perst both plate and And made wide furrowes in their fleshes fraile , That it would pitty any liuing eie ...
... fell , To thunder blowes , and fiersly to assaile Each other bent his enimy to quell , [ maile , That with their force they perst both plate and And made wide furrowes in their fleshes fraile , That it would pitty any liuing eie ...
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... fell to ground for sorrowfull regret , And liuely breath her sad brest did forsake , Yet might her pitteous hart be seene to pant and quake . 21 The messenger of so vnhappie newes Would faine haue dyde : dead was his hart within , Yet ...
... fell to ground for sorrowfull regret , And liuely breath her sad brest did forsake , Yet might her pitteous hart be seene to pant and quake . 21 The messenger of so vnhappie newes Would faine haue dyde : dead was his hart within , Yet ...
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