The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 |
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Amongst Amoret armes Artegall battell beare beheld Blandamour bloud bold Braggadochio brest Britomart brought Cambell CANTO chaunge Chrysaor cruell Dame Damzell daunger deare despight dight dismayd doth dread dreadfull Eftsoones evermore FAERIE QUEENE Faery Knight faire faire Ladies false farre fayre feare fell fight Florimell gentle Glauce goodly griefe groning hand hart hath heaven hight himselfe inly knight Ladies late light litle living Malbecco Marinell mayd mighty mote nigh noble nought Paridell perill powre Proteus quight quoth rest Satyrane sayd Scudamour seem'd seemed selfe shame shee shew shield shyning sight sith skie sonne soone sore sory speare spide spright Squire steed streight Sunne Talus thee thence Thereat thereof therewith things thou thought trew Triamond unto vaine vertue warlike wearie weene weet wend Whilest wicked wight wize wonne wont wound wretched wyde yeeld yron
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Page 231 - So all the world by thee at first was made, And dayly yet thou doest the same repayre; Ne ought on earth that merry is and glad, Ne ought on earth that lovely is and fayre, But thou the same for pleasure didst prepayre : Thou art the root of all that joyous is: Great God of men and women, queen of th...
Page 209 - For naturall affection soone doth cesse, And quenched is with Cupids greater flame : But faithfull friendship doth them both suppresse, And them with maystring discipline doth tame, Through thoughts aspyring to eternall fame. For as the soule doth rule the earthly masse, And all the service of the bodie frame, So love of soule doth love of bodie passe, No lesse then perfect gold surmounts the meanest brasse.
Page 9 - Ne needs there gardiner to sett or sow, To plant or prune ; for of their owne accord All things, as they created were, doe grow, And yet remember well the Mighty Word Which first was spoken by th...
Page 278 - And had encroched uppon others share, Like as the sea (which plaine he shewed there) Had worne the earth, so did the fire the aire, So all the rest did others parts empaire. And so were realmes and nations run awry. All which he undertooke for to repaire, In sort as they were formed aunciently ; And all things would reduce unto equality.
Page 74 - Yet can he never dye, but dying lives, And doth himselfe with sorrow new sustaine, • That death and life attonce unto him gives, And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine. There dwels he ever, miserable swaine, Hatefull both to him selfe and every wight; Where he, through privy griefe and horrour vaine, It woxen so deform'd that he has quight forgot he was a man, and Gelosy is hight.
Page 188 - She left the gentle Squire with Amoret: There she him found by that new lovely Mate, Who lay the whiles in swoune, full sadly set, From her faire eyes wiping the deawy wet Which softly stild, and kissing them atweene, And handling soft the hurts which she did get...
Page 9 - He letteth in, he letteth out to wend, All that to come into the world desire; A thousand thousand naked babes...
Page 10 - Daily they grow, and daily forth are sent Into the world, it to replenish more ; Yet is the stocke not lessened nor spent, But still remaines in...
Page 8 - In that same gardin all the goodly flowres, Wherewith Dame Nature doth her beautify, And decks the girlonds of her paramoures, Are fetcht: there is the first seminary Of all things that are borne to live and dye, According to their kynds.
Page 226 - Sweet springs, in which a thousand Nymphs did play ; Soft rombling brookes, that gentle slomber drew ; High reared mounts, the lands about to vew ; Low looking dales, disloignd from common gaze ; Delightfull bowres, to solace lovers trew ; False Labyrinthes, fond runners eyes to daze ; All which by nature made did nature selfe amaze. " And all without were walkes and alleyes dight...