more happie is the state In which ye, father, here doe dwell at ease, Leading a life so free and fortunate From all the tempests of these worldly seas, Which tosse the rest in daungerous disease; Where warres, and wreckes, and wicked enmitie Doe them... The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 371by Edmund Spenser - 1921 - 736 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gary Schmidgall - 1974 - 594 pages
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 | David R. Shore - Clout, Colin (Fictitious character) - 1985 - 200 pages
...bent, (ix 26) Not surprisingly, he sees in Meliboe's way of life an attractive alternative to his own: How much (sayd he) more happie is the state, In which...enmitie Doe them afflict, which no man can appease, Although the words have been condemned as a "set speech" which comes "rolling off Calidore's tongue... | |
 | Robert E. Stillman - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 292 pages
...accepted the hospitality of old Meliboe than he begins to expostulate on his host's happy condition: ... so free and fortunate From all the tempests of these worldly seas, Which tosse the rest in daungerous disease.15 The fact that the knight, not the shepherd, makes this speech, Spenser humorously reminds... | |
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