The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in Five Volumes, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1825 - 434 pages |
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... tell , Doe make a lovers life a wretches hell . 260 265 Yet is there one more cursed then they all , That cancker - worme , that monster , Gelosie , Which eates the heart and feedes upon the gall , Turning all Loves delight to miserie ...
... tell , Doe make a lovers life a wretches hell . 260 265 Yet is there one more cursed then they all , That cancker - worme , that monster , Gelosie , Which eates the heart and feedes upon the gall , Turning all Loves delight to miserie ...
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... tell . Thereof as every earthly thing partakes Or more or lesse , by influence divine , So it more faire accordingly it makes , And the grosse matter of this earthly myne Which closeth it thereafter doth refyne , Doing away the drosse ...
... tell . Thereof as every earthly thing partakes Or more or lesse , by influence divine , So it more faire accordingly it makes , And the grosse matter of this earthly myne Which closeth it thereafter doth refyne , Doing away the drosse ...
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... drop of thy celestiall dew , That may my rymes with sweet infuse embrew , And give me words equall unto my thought , To tell the marveiles by thy mercie wrought . 45 Yet being pregnant still with powrefull grace , And full HYMNES . 29.
... drop of thy celestiall dew , That may my rymes with sweet infuse embrew , And give me words equall unto my thought , To tell the marveiles by thy mercie wrought . 45 Yet being pregnant still with powrefull grace , And full HYMNES . 29.
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... tell the things that I behold , But feele my wits to faile , and tongue to fold . Vouchsafe then , O Thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all guifts of wit and knowledge flow , To shed into my breast some sparkling light Of Thine ...
... tell the things that I behold , But feele my wits to faile , and tongue to fold . Vouchsafe then , O Thou most Almightie Spright ! From whom all guifts of wit and knowledge flow , To shed into my breast some sparkling light Of Thine ...
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... tell me then , what hast thou ever seene That to their beautie may compared bee , Or can the sight that is most sharpe and keene Endure their captains flaming head to see ? How much lesse those , much higher in degree , And so much ...
... tell me then , what hast thou ever seene That to their beautie may compared bee , Or can the sight that is most sharpe and keene Endure their captains flaming head to see ? How much lesse those , much higher in degree , And so much ...
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