The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserHenry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916 - 736 pages |
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... hast to greet his victorie , And said , Faire knight , borne vnder happy starre , Who see your vanquisht foes before you lye ; Well worthy be you of that Armorie , Wherein ye haue great glory wonne this day , And proou'd your strength ...
... hast to greet his victorie , And said , Faire knight , borne vnder happy starre , Who see your vanquisht foes before you lye ; Well worthy be you of that Armorie , Wherein ye haue great glory wonne this day , And proou'd your strength ...
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... hast vnto his Lord , where he him left afore . Cast a blacke stole , most like to seeme for Vna fit . 46 Now when that ydle dreame was to him brought , Vnto that Elfin knight he bad him fly , Where he slept soundly void of euill thought ...
... hast vnto his Lord , where he him left afore . Cast a blacke stole , most like to seeme for Vna fit . 46 Now when that ydle dreame was to him brought , Vnto that Elfin knight he bad him fly , Where he slept soundly void of euill thought ...
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... hast was climbing vp the Easterne hill , Full enuious that night so long his roome did fill . 2 When those accursed messengers of hell , That feigning dreame , and that faire - forged Spright Came to their wicked maister , and gan tell ...
... hast was climbing vp the Easterne hill , Full enuious that night so long his roome did fill . 2 When those accursed messengers of hell , That feigning dreame , and that faire - forged Spright Came to their wicked maister , and gan tell ...
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... hast Vnto his guest , who after troublous sights And dreames , gan now to take more sound repast , As Whomsuddenly ] he wakes with fearefull frights , one aghast with feends or damned sprights , And to him cals , Rise rise vnhappy ...
... hast Vnto his guest , who after troublous sights And dreames , gan now to take more sound repast , As Whomsuddenly ] he wakes with fearefull frights , one aghast with feends or damned sprights , And to him cals , Rise rise vnhappy ...
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... hast . 35 Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath ; Abhorred bloudshed , and tumultuous strife , Vnmanly murder , and vnthrifty scath , Bitter despight , with rancours rusty knife , And fretting griefe the enemy of life ; All these ...
... hast . 35 Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath ; Abhorred bloudshed , and tumultuous strife , Vnmanly murder , and vnthrifty scath , Bitter despight , with rancours rusty knife , And fretting griefe the enemy of life ; All these ...
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