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Page 378
... fortunes fault accuse , Sith they know best , what is the best for them : For they to each such fortune doe diffuse , As they doe know each can most aptly vse . For not that , which men couet most , is best , Nor that thing worst ...
... fortunes fault accuse , Sith they know best , what is the best for them : For they to each such fortune doe diffuse , As they doe know each can most aptly vse . For not that , which men couet most , is best , Nor that thing worst ...
Page 496
... fortune , where I may it mend For worse than that I haue , I cannot meete . Wide is the world I wote and euerie streete Is full of fortunes , and aduentures straunge Continuallie subiect vnto chaunge . Say my faire brother now , if this ...
... fortune , where I may it mend For worse than that I haue , I cannot meete . Wide is the world I wote and euerie streete Is full of fortunes , and aduentures straunge Continuallie subiect vnto chaunge . Say my faire brother now , if this ...
Page 501
... fortune doth you secret fauour giue . Foolish Foxe ( said the Mule ) thy wretched need Praiseth the thing that doth thy sorrow breed . For well I weene , thou canst not but enuie My wealth , compar'd to thine owne miserie , That art so ...
... fortune doth you secret fauour giue . Foolish Foxe ( said the Mule ) thy wretched need Praiseth the thing that doth thy sorrow breed . For well I weene , thou canst not but enuie My wealth , compar'd to thine owne miserie , That art so ...
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INTRODUCTION BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL | 3 |
THE Legend of Britomartis OR OF CHASTITIE | 140 |
THE SECOND PART OF THE FAERIE QVEENE | 211 |
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