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... lovers will deceive . Thus was the ape , By their faire handling , put into Malbeccoes cape . XXXII . Now , when of meats and drinks they had their fill , Purpose was moved by that gentle Dame Unto thofe Knights adventurous , to tell Of ...
... lovers will deceive . Thus was the ape , By their faire handling , put into Malbeccoes cape . XXXII . Now , when of meats and drinks they had their fill , Purpose was moved by that gentle Dame Unto thofe Knights adventurous , to tell Of ...
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... Lover loft no time nor tyde That least avantage mote to him afford , Yet bore fo faire a fayle , that none espyde His fecret drift till he her layd abord . Whenfo in open place and commune bord He fortun'd her to meet , with commune ...
... Lover loft no time nor tyde That least avantage mote to him afford , Yet bore fo faire a fayle , that none espyde His fecret drift till he her layd abord . Whenfo in open place and commune bord He fortun'd her to meet , with commune ...
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... lovers painc , Branfles , ballads , virelayes , and verfes vaine ; VI . 9 . or hofpitages breach . ] Or breach of hofpitality . I believe hofpitage to be a word coined by Spenfer . TODD . : . VIII . 5. Branfles , ] Brawls , a French ...
... lovers painc , Branfles , ballads , virelayes , and verfes vaine ; VI . 9 . or hofpitages breach . ] Or breach of hofpitality . I believe hofpitage to be a word coined by Spenfer . TODD . : . VIII . 5. Branfles , ] Brawls , a French ...
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... lover , that Slender , in the Merry Wives of Windfor , is greatly diftreffed on finding , when he is in- troduced to Anne Page , that his man had not The Book of Rid- dles about him ; and that therefore his treacherous memory would not ...
... lover , that Slender , in the Merry Wives of Windfor , is greatly diftreffed on finding , when he is in- troduced to Anne Page , that his man had not The Book of Rid- dles about him ; and that therefore his treacherous memory would not ...
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... Lover told . It pleafed well : So well they both agree ; So readie rype to ill ill wemens counfels bee ! XII . Darke was the evening , fit for lovers ftealth . When chaunft Malbecco bufie be elsewhere , : She to his closet went , where ...
... Lover told . It pleafed well : So well they both agree ; So readie rype to ill ill wemens counfels bee ! XII . Darke was the evening , fit for lovers ftealth . When chaunft Malbecco bufie be elsewhere , : She to his closet went , where ...
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againſt alfo Amoret Blandamour brigandines Britomart Canto Chaucer CHURCH cloſe cruell Dame deare defire doth dreadfull edition in 1758 editions read eftfoones expreffion F. Q. iii Faerie Queene faft faid faire faire Ladies falfe fame farre fayd feare fecond fecret feeke feem'd feems feene fhall fhew fhould fide fight filk firft firſt flaine Florimell folios fome foone fore forrow freſh ftill fuch fure goodly hart hath herfelfe hight himſelfe Hughes JORTIN Knight Ladies laft laſt leffe likewife Malbecco moft moſt mote nought obferved Ovid paffage paffing Paridell pleaſure poet powre reft reſt Satyrane Scudamour ſhe Spenfer Spenfer's own edition Squire ſtill thefe themſelves theſe third folios thofe thoſe thou TODD Tonfon's edition Triamond ufed unto UPTON uſed vaine Venus viii Virgil WARTON weene weet whenas whofe whoſe wight wonne XXVII XXXIII
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Page 274 - Right fit to rend the food on which he fared. His name was Care ; a blacksmith by his trade, That neither day nor night from working spared, But to small purpose yron wedges made ; Those be unquiet thoughts that...
Page 404 - Thus having past all perill, I was come Within the compasse of that Islands space ; The which did seeme, unto my simple doome, The onely pleasant and delightfull place That ever troden was of footings trace : For all that nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base, Was there ; and all that nature did omit, Art, playing second natures part, supplyed it.
Page 444 - Before the spouse : that was Arion crownd ; Who, playing on his harpe, unto him drew The eares and hearts of all that goodly crew, That even yet the Dolphin, which him bore Through the Agsan seas from Pirates vew, Stood still by him astonisht at his lore, And all the raging seas for joy forgot to rore.
Page 327 - ... till at length it was told the Queen he was brother to the Lord William Mountjoy. This...
Page 155 - And loathly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, .That nought but gall and venim comprehended, And wicked wordes that God and man offended. Her lying tongue was in two parts divided, And both the parts did speake, and both contended ; And as her tongue so was her hart discided, That never thoght one thing, but doubly stil was guided.
Page 138 - For it of honor and all vertue is The roote, and brings forth glorious flowres of fame, That crowne true lovers with immortall blis, The meed of them that love, and do not live amisse.
Page 407 - And therein thousand payres of lovers walkt, Praysing their god, and yeelding him great thankes, Ne ever ought but of their true loves talkt, Ne ever for rebuke or blame of any balkt.
Page 349 - But antique Age, yet in the infancie Of time, did live then, like an innocent, In simple truth and blamelesse chastitie ; Ne then of guile had made experiment; But, voide of vile and treacherous intent, Held Vertue, for...
Page 450 - Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne He doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit.
Page 421 - So all the world by thee at first was made, And dayly yet thou doest the same repayre ; Ne ought on earth that merry is and glad, Ne ought on earth that lovely is and fayre, But thou the same for pleasure didst prepayre : Thou art the root of all that joyous is : Great God of men and women, queene of th...