The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1825 - 434 pages |
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Page 53
... beast , That at the last , and in short time , I spide , Under a rocke , where she alas , opprest , Fell to the ground , and there untimely dide . Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie , Oft makes me wayle so hard a destenie . II ...
... beast , That at the last , and in short time , I spide , Under a rocke , where she alas , opprest , Fell to the ground , and there untimely dide . Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie , Oft makes me wayle so hard a destenie . II ...
Page 61
... Beast with seven heads arose , That townes and castles under her brest did coure , And seem'd both milder beasts and fiercer foes Alike with equall ravine to devoure . Much was I mazde , to see this monsters kinde In hundred formes to ...
... Beast with seven heads arose , That townes and castles under her brest did coure , And seem'd both milder beasts and fiercer foes Alike with equall ravine to devoure . Much was I mazde , to see this monsters kinde In hundred formes to ...
Page 66
... beast to open wide The greisly gates of his devouring hell , And let him feede , as Nature did provide , Upon his iawes , that with blacke venime swell . Why then should greatest things the least disdaine , Sith that so small so mightie ...
... beast to open wide The greisly gates of his devouring hell , And let him feede , as Nature did provide , Upon his iawes , that with blacke venime swell . Why then should greatest things the least disdaine , Sith that so small so mightie ...
Page 69
... beasts to scorne . Till that a little Ant , a silly worme , Into his nostrils creeping , so him pained , That , casting downe his towres , he did deforme Both borrowed pride , and native beautie stained . Let therefore nought , that ...
... beasts to scorne . Till that a little Ant , a silly worme , Into his nostrils creeping , so him pained , That , casting downe his towres , he did deforme Both borrowed pride , and native beautie stained . Let therefore nought , that ...
Page 70
... beasts and spoyle of living blood , Safe in his dreadles den him thought to hide : His sternesse was his prayse , his strength his pride , And all his glory in his cruell clawes . I saw a Wasp , that fiercely him defide , And bad him ...
... beasts and spoyle of living blood , Safe in his dreadles den him thought to hide : His sternesse was his prayse , his strength his pride , And all his glory in his cruell clawes . I saw a Wasp , that fiercely him defide , And bad him ...
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