The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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... aboue the ground : Tho wrapping vp her wrethed sterne arownd , Lept fierce vpon his shield , and her huge traine All suddenly about his body wound , That hand or foot to stirre he stroue in vaine : God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours ...
... aboue the ground : Tho wrapping vp her wrethed sterne arownd , Lept fierce vpon his shield , and her huge traine All suddenly about his body wound , That hand or foot to stirre he stroue in vaine : God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours ...
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... aboue the Aegyptian vale , His fattie waues do fertile slime outwell , And ouerflow each plaine and lowly dale : But when his later spring gins to auale , Huge heapes of mudd he leaues , wherein there breed Ten thousand kindes of ...
... aboue the Aegyptian vale , His fattie waues do fertile slime outwell , And ouerflow each plaine and lowly dale : But when his later spring gins to auale , Huge heapes of mudd he leaues , wherein there breed Ten thousand kindes of ...
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... aboue , Or the blind God , that doth me thus amate , For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate ? Yet thus perforce he bids me do , or die . Die is my dew : yet rew my wretched state You , whom my hard auenging destinie Hath made iudge of ...
... aboue , Or the blind God , that doth me thus amate , For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate ? Yet thus perforce he bids me do , or die . Die is my dew : yet rew my wretched state You , whom my hard auenging destinie Hath made iudge of ...
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... Aboue the shynie Cassiopeias chaire , And all in deadly sleepe did drowned lie , One knocked at the dore , and in would fare ; He knocked fast , and often curst , and sware , That readie entrance was not at his call : For on his backe a ...
... Aboue the shynie Cassiopeias chaire , And all in deadly sleepe did drowned lie , One knocked at the dore , and in would fare ; He knocked fast , and often curst , and sware , That readie entrance was not at his call : For on his backe a ...
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... aboue all a cloth of State was spred , And a rich throne , as bright as sunny day , On which there sate most braue embellished With royall robes and gorgeous array , A mayden Queene , that shone as Titans ray , In glistring gold , and ...
... aboue all a cloth of State was spred , And a rich throne , as bright as sunny day , On which there sate most braue embellished With royall robes and gorgeous array , A mayden Queene , that shone as Titans ray , In glistring gold , and ...
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