The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserOxford University Press, 1932 - 736 pages |
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Page 152
... fortune good , though wicked were their mind . 44 But wicked fortune mine , though mind be good , Can haue no end , nor hope of my desire , But feed on shadowes , whiles I die for food , And like a shadow wexe , whiles with entire ...
... fortune good , though wicked were their mind . 44 But wicked fortune mine , though mind be good , Can haue no end , nor hope of my desire , But feed on shadowes , whiles I die for food , And like a shadow wexe , whiles with entire ...
Page 299
... Fortune enuying good , hath felly frowned , And cruell heauens haue heapt an heauy fate ; I rew that thus thy better ... fortunes frowne , or heauens threat , Then in the sunshine of her countenance cleare Timely to ioy , and carrie ...
... Fortune enuying good , hath felly frowned , And cruell heauens haue heapt an heauy fate ; I rew that thus thy better ... fortunes frowne , or heauens threat , Then in the sunshine of her countenance cleare Timely to ioy , and carrie ...
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 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL | 3 |
69 | 125 |
THE Legend of Cambel and Telamond or of FRIENDSHIP | 213 |
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