The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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... haue taken in hand to discourse at large in my poeme before spoken , I hope the expectation of that work may serue to free me at this time from speaking in that matter , notwithstanding your motion and all your intreaties . But I will ...
... haue taken in hand to discourse at large in my poeme before spoken , I hope the expectation of that work may serue to free me at this time from speaking in that matter , notwithstanding your motion and all your intreaties . But I will ...
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... Hauing all satisfide their bloudy thurst , Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst , And bowels gushing forth : well worthy end Of such as drunke her life , the which them nurst ; Now needeth him no lenger labour spend , His foes ...
... Hauing all satisfide their bloudy thurst , Their bellies swolne he saw with fulnesse burst , And bowels gushing forth : well worthy end Of such as drunke her life , the which them nurst ; Now needeth him no lenger labour spend , His foes ...
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... haue before bewitched all mens sight ; O leaue her soone , or let her soone be slaine . Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine , Eftsoones I thought her such , as she me told , And would haue kild her ; but with faigned paine , [ hold ...
... haue before bewitched all mens sight ; O leaue her soone , or let her soone be slaine . Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine , Eftsoones I thought her such , as she me told , And would haue kild her ; but with faigned paine , [ hold ...
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... haue tost : Of that old woman tydings he besought , If that of such a Ladie she could tellen ought . 25 Therewith ... haue ye bene thus long out of my sight ? Much feared I to haue bene quite abhord , Or ought haue done , that ye ...
... haue tost : Of that old woman tydings he besought , If that of such a Ladie she could tellen ought . 25 Therewith ... haue ye bene thus long out of my sight ? Much feared I to haue bene quite abhord , Or ought haue done , that ye ...
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... Haue slaine him straight : but when he sees his age , And hoarie head of Archimago old , His hastie hand he doth amazed hold , And halfe ashamed , wondred at the sight : For the old man well knew he , though vntold , In charmes and ...
... Haue slaine him straight : but when he sees his age , And hoarie head of Archimago old , His hastie hand he doth amazed hold , And halfe ashamed , wondred at the sight : For the old man well knew he , though vntold , In charmes and ...
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