The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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... wont to trouble gentle Sleepe . By them the Sprite doth passe in quietly , And vnto Morpheus comes , whom drowned deepe [ keepe . So liuely , and so like in all mens sight , That weaker sence it could haue rauisht quight : The maker ...
... wont to trouble gentle Sleepe . By them the Sprite doth passe in quietly , And vnto Morpheus comes , whom drowned deepe [ keepe . So liuely , and so like in all mens sight , That weaker sence it could haue rauisht quight : The maker ...
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... wont to comfort me affrayd ? 53 Loue of your selfe , she said , and deare constraint Lets me not sleepe , but wast the wearie night In secret anguish and vnpittied plaint , Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight . Her ...
... wont to comfort me affrayd ? 53 Loue of your selfe , she said , and deare constraint Lets me not sleepe , but wast the wearie night In secret anguish and vnpittied plaint , Whiles you in carelesse sleepe are drowned quight . Her ...
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... wont to wait each houre ; Then gan she waile and weepe , to see that woe- full stowre . 8 And after him she rode with so much speede As her slow beast could make ; but all in vaine : For him so far had borne his light - foot steede ...
... wont to wait each houre ; Then gan she waile and weepe , to see that woe- full stowre . 8 And after him she rode with so much speede As her slow beast could make ; but all in vaine : For him so far had borne his light - foot steede ...
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... wont there sound His mery oaten pipe , but shund th'vnlucky ground . But this good knight soone as he them can spie , For the coole shade him thither hastly got : For golden Phœbus now ymounted hie , From fiery wheeles of his faire ...
... wont there sound His mery oaten pipe , but shund th'vnlucky ground . But this good knight soone as he them can spie , For the coole shade him thither hastly got : For golden Phœbus now ymounted hie , From fiery wheeles of his faire ...
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... wont to say . 14 And to augment her painefull pennance more , Thrise euery weeke in ashes she did sit , And next her wrinkled skin rough sackcloth wore , And thrise three times did fast from any bit : But now for feare her beads she did ...
... wont to say . 14 And to augment her painefull pennance more , Thrise euery weeke in ashes she did sit , And next her wrinkled skin rough sackcloth wore , And thrise three times did fast from any bit : But now for feare her beads she did ...
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