The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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Page xxiv
... vertue she of all the rest . ' After Grey's departure Spenser remained in Ireland executing subordi- nate but not unlucrative duties as a civil servant . Already , in the previous • year , he had been appointed Clerk of Decrees xxiv ...
... vertue she of all the rest . ' After Grey's departure Spenser remained in Ireland executing subordi- nate but not unlucrative duties as a civil servant . Already , in the previous • year , he had been appointed Clerk of Decrees xxiv ...
Page xxvi
... vertues , assigning to euery vertue a Knight to be the patron and defender of the same , in whose actions and feates of arms and chiualry the operations of that vertue whereof he is the protector , are to be expressed , and the vices ...
... vertues , assigning to euery vertue a Knight to be the patron and defender of the same , in whose actions and feates of arms and chiualry the operations of that vertue whereof he is the protector , are to be expressed , and the vices ...
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... . Difpofed into twelue bookes , Fashioning XII . Morall vertues . LONDON Printed for VVilliam Ponsonbie . ΤΟ THE MOST HIGH , MIGHTIE And MAGNIFICENT EMPRESSE RENOVV 1596 . THE FAERIE INTRODUCTION, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL THE FAERIE ...
... . Difpofed into twelue bookes , Fashioning XII . Morall vertues . LONDON Printed for VVilliam Ponsonbie . ΤΟ THE MOST HIGH , MIGHTIE And MAGNIFICENT EMPRESSE RENOVV 1596 . THE FAERIE INTRODUCTION, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL THE FAERIE ...
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... Vertue giues her selfe light , through darkenesse for to wade . 13 Yea but ( quoth she ) the perill of this place I better wot then you , though now too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace , Yet wisedome warnes , whilest ...
... Vertue giues her selfe light , through darkenesse for to wade . 13 Yea but ( quoth she ) the perill of this place I better wot then you , though now too late To wish you backe returne with foule disgrace , Yet wisedome warnes , whilest ...
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... vertue gan eftsoones reuiue , And at his haughtie helmet making mark , So hugely stroke , that it the steele did riue , And cleft his head . He tumbling downe aliue , With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis , Greeting his graue : his ...
... vertue gan eftsoones reuiue , And at his haughtie helmet making mark , So hugely stroke , that it the steele did riue , And cleft his head . He tumbling downe aliue , With bloudy mouth his mother earth did kis , Greeting his graue : his ...
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