Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs, Volume 2Columbia University Press, 1912 - 364 pages |
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Page 68 - For it had bene an auncient tree, Sacred with many a mysteree, And often crost with the priestes crewe, And often halowed with holy-water dewe : But sike fancies weren foolerie, And broughten this Oake to this miserye ; For nought mought they quitten him from decay, For fiercely the good man at him did laye.
Page 246 - Yet the brave Courtier, in whose beauteous thought Regard of honour harbours more than ought, Doth loath such base condition, to backbite Anies good name for envie or despite: He stands on tearmes of honourable minde, Ne will be carried with the common winde Of Courts...
Page 90 - He now is gone, the whiles the Foxe is crept Into the hole, the which the Badger swept.
Page 244 - ASTROPHEL A PASTORALL ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE MOST NOBLE AND VALOROUS KNIGHT SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
Page 227 - And eke tenne thousand sithes I blesse the stoure Wherein I sawe so fayre a sight as shee : Yet all for naught : such sight hath bred my bane. Ah, God ! that love should breede both joy and payne...
Page 74 - Well is it seene, theyr sheepe bene not their owne, That letten them runne at randon alone. But they bene hyred for little pay Of other, that caren as little as they, What fallen the flocke, so they han the fleece, And get all the gayne, paying but a peece.
Page 278 - I scorne and spue out the rakehellye route of our ragged rymers (for so themselves use to hunt the letter) which without learning boste, without judgement jangle, without reason rage and fome, as if some instinct of Poeticall spirite had newly ravished them above the meanenesse of common capacitie.
Page 318 - I goe thither, as sent by him, and maintained most what of him; and there am to employ my time, my body, my minde, to his Honours seruice.
Page 230 - Rosalinde, is also a feigned name, which, being wel ordered, wil bewray the very name of hys love and mistresse, whom by that name he coloureth.
Page 171 - So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodge-podge of al other speches.