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Page xxxiii
... vaine , For that same net so cunningly was wound , That neither guile nor force might it distraine 2. " Even the metaphor of the spider's web remains in Spenser's mind though he does not employ it here but to describe the garment of ...
... vaine , For that same net so cunningly was wound , That neither guile nor force might it distraine 2. " Even the metaphor of the spider's web remains in Spenser's mind though he does not employ it here but to describe the garment of ...
Page xxxiv
... vaine , Nor bounds nor bankes his headlong ruine may sustaine " . " This appears to be a combination of two similes from Virgil : " Aut rapidus montano flumine torrens , Sternit agros , sternit sata laeta boumque labores ...
... vaine , Nor bounds nor bankes his headlong ruine may sustaine " . " This appears to be a combination of two similes from Virgil : " Aut rapidus montano flumine torrens , Sternit agros , sternit sata laeta boumque labores ...
Page 4
... vaine , He chaungd his minde from one to other ill : 40 For to all good he enimy was still . Upon the way him fortuned to meet , Faire marching underneath a shady hill , A goodly knight , all armd in harnesse meete , That from his head ...
... vaine , He chaungd his minde from one to other ill : 40 For to all good he enimy was still . Upon the way him fortuned to meet , Faire marching underneath a shady hill , A goodly knight , all armd in harnesse meete , That from his head ...
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... vaine to helpe did call . 11 89 How may it be , ( said then the knight halfe wroth , ) That knight should knighthood ever so have shent ? None but that saw ( quoth he ) would weene for troth , How shamefully that Maid he did torment ...
... vaine to helpe did call . 11 89 How may it be , ( said then the knight halfe wroth , ) That knight should knighthood ever so have shent ? None but that saw ( quoth he ) would weene for troth , How shamefully that Maid he did torment ...
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... vaine for ye shall dearely do him rew , So God ye speed , and send you good successe ; Which we farre off will here abide to vew . So they him left , inflam'd with wrathfulnesse , That streight against that knight his speare he did ...
... vaine for ye shall dearely do him rew , So God ye speed , and send you good successe ; Which we farre off will here abide to vew . So they him left , inflam'd with wrathfulnesse , That streight against that knight his speare he did ...
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