The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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... Nought is there vnder heau'ns wide hollownesse , That moues more deare compassion of mind , Then beautie brought t'vnworthy wretched- [ vnkind : Through enuies snares or fortunes freakes I , whether lately through her brightnesse blind ...
... Nought is there vnder heau'ns wide hollownesse , That moues more deare compassion of mind , Then beautie brought t'vnworthy wretched- [ vnkind : Through enuies snares or fortunes freakes I , whether lately through her brightnesse blind ...
Page 15
... nought at all , She could not heare , nor speake , nor vnderstand ; Till seeing by her side the Lyon stand , With suddaine feare her pitcher downe she threw , And fled away for neuer in that land Face of faire Ladie she before did vew ...
... nought at all , She could not heare , nor speake , nor vnderstand ; Till seeing by her side the Lyon stand , With suddaine feare her pitcher downe she threw , And fled away for neuer in that land Face of faire Ladie she before did vew ...
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... nought , but in a traunce still lay , And on those guilefull dazed eyes of his The cloud of death did sit . Which doen away , He left him lying so , ne would no lenger stay . 40 But to the virgin comes , who all this while Amased stands ...
... nought , but in a traunce still lay , And on those guilefull dazed eyes of his The cloud of death did sit . Which doen away , He left him lying so , ne would no lenger stay . 40 But to the virgin comes , who all this while Amased stands ...
Page 36
... nought ; And vnderneath his filthy feet did tread The sacred things , and holy heasts foretaught . Vpon this dreadfull Beast with seuenfold head He set the false Duessa , for more aw and dread . 19 The wofull Dwarfe , which saw his ...
... nought ; And vnderneath his filthy feet did tread The sacred things , and holy heasts foretaught . Vpon this dreadfull Beast with seuenfold head He set the false Duessa , for more aw and dread . 19 The wofull Dwarfe , which saw his ...
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... nought at all ; And when him list the prouder lookes subdew , He would them gazing blind , or turne to other hew . 36 Ne let it seeme , that credence this exceedes , For he that made the same , was knowne right | well To haue done much ...
... nought at all ; And when him list the prouder lookes subdew , He would them gazing blind , or turne to other hew . 36 Ne let it seeme , that credence this exceedes , For he that made the same , was knowne right | well To haue done much ...
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