The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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Page liii
... fight with Arthur ( v . viii ) may represent the Armada encountering the English force , the story of Samient referring to Philip's attempts to undermine Elizabeth's power in Ireland . In v . ix , the trial of Duessa by Mercilla trial ...
... fight with Arthur ( v . viii ) may represent the Armada encountering the English force , the story of Samient referring to Philip's attempts to undermine Elizabeth's power in Ireland . In v . ix , the trial of Duessa by Mercilla trial ...
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... fight . Whose corage when the feend perceiu'd to shrinke , She poured forth out of her hellish sinke Her fruitfull cursed spawne of serpents small , Deformed monsters , fowle , and blacke as inke , Which swarming all about his legs did ...
... fight . Whose corage when the feend perceiu'd to shrinke , She poured forth out of her hellish sinke Her fruitfull cursed spawne of serpents small , Deformed monsters , fowle , and blacke as inke , Which swarming all about his legs did ...
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... fight Hauing yrockt a sleepe his irkesome spright , That troublous dreame gan freshly tosse his braine , [ delight : With bowres , and beds , and Ladies deare But when he saw his labour all was vaine , With that misformed spright he ...
... fight Hauing yrockt a sleepe his irkesome spright , That troublous dreame gan freshly tosse his braine , [ delight : With bowres , and beds , and Ladies deare But when he saw his labour all was vaine , With that misformed spright he ...
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... Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke , Their horned fronts so fierce on either side Do meete , that with the terrour of the shocke Astonied both , stand sencelesse as a blocke , Forgetfull of the hanging victory : So stood ...
... Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke , Their horned fronts so fierce on either side Do meete , that with the terrour of the shocke Astonied both , stand sencelesse as a blocke , Forgetfull of the hanging victory : So stood ...
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... fight . 39 And said , Why Archimago , lucklesse syre , What doe I see ? what hard mishap is this , That hath thee hither brought to taste mine yre ? Or thine the fault , or mine the error is , In stead of foe to wound my friend amis ...
... fight . 39 And said , Why Archimago , lucklesse syre , What doe I see ? what hard mishap is this , That hath thee hither brought to taste mine yre ? Or thine the fault , or mine the error is , In stead of foe to wound my friend amis ...
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