 Almighties stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doome aread, That furthest nations filles with awfull dread, Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so divine a read, As thy great iustice...  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 255by Edmund Spenser - 1891Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Spenser - Poetry - 1908 - 892 pages
...goddesse, that doest highest ait In seate of judgement, in th' Almighties stead, And with maguificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doome aread, That furthest nations lilies with awfull dread. Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so divine... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1909 - 544 pages
...right, as he doth recommend. Dread Souerayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit In seate of iudgement, in th 'Almighties stead, And with magnificke might...boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so diuine a read, As thy great justice praysed ouer all : The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1914 - 232 pages
...And rule his people right, as he doth recommend. Dread Soverayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit n In seate of judgement in th' Almighties stead, And...divine a read As thy great justice, praysed over all ; CANTO I Artegall trayn'd in Justice lore Irenaes quest pursewed ; He doth avenge on Sanglier his... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1926 - 496 pages
...And rule his people right, as he doth recommend. xi. Dread Soverayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit In seate of judgement in th' Almighties stead, And...righteous doome aread, That furthest Nations filles with awful dread, Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so divine a read As... | |
 | Susan Howe - Poets, American - 1985 - 146 pages
...unquestioning. Dread Souerayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit In seate of iudgement, in th'Almighties place, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to...boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so diuine a read, As thy great iustice praysed ouer all: The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 387 pages
...aspect of Elizabeth that Spenser invokes as his Muse in Book 5, the "Dread Souerayne Goddesse" who "Doest to thy people righteous doome aread, / That furthest Nations filles with awfull dread" (5. Proem. 11). This Elizabeth is queen not just of England, but of Ireland, France, and Virginia,... | |
 | Frances Amelia Yates - History - 1999 - 302 pages
...reigns in England:1 Dread Souerayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit In seate of iudgement, in the' Almighties stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doome aread . . . It is a vision of the enthroned imperial virgin. Other visions of, and names for, the queen in... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - Culture and law - 2002 - 296 pages
...Artegall: Dread Souerayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit In seate of iudgement, in th'Almighties stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit...boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so diuine a read, As thy great iustice praysed ouer all: The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.... | |
 | Bart Van Es - History - 2002 - 260 pages
...Queen. Addressing her at the close of the Proem, Spenser begs to be able to write of present glory: Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so diuine a read, As thy great iustice praysed ouer all: The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1844 - 598 pages
...He doth recommend. XI. Dread soverayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit In seate of judgment, in the Almighties stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doom aread, That furthest nations filles with awfull dread ; Pardon the boldness of thy basest thrall,... | |
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