Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1893 - 736 pages |
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Page xlvii
... fortune's blandishment ; But rather chose back to my sheepe to tourne , Whose utmost hardnesse I before had tryde , Then having learnd repentance late to mourne Amongst those wretches which I then descryde . That life , with all its ...
... fortune's blandishment ; But rather chose back to my sheepe to tourne , Whose utmost hardnesse I before had tryde , Then having learnd repentance late to mourne Amongst those wretches which I then descryde . That life , with all its ...
Page 17
... fortune and frayle worldly feares , Fly to your fayth for succour and sure ayde : Let me not die in languor and long teares . ' ' Why , Dame , ' ( quoth he , ) ' what hath ye thus dismayd ? What frayes ye , that were wont to comfort me ...
... fortune and frayle worldly feares , Fly to your fayth for succour and sure ayde : Let me not die in languor and long teares . ' ' Why , Dame , ' ( quoth he , ) ' what hath ye thus dismayd ? What frayes ye , that were wont to comfort me ...
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... fortune false betraide me to thy powre , Was ( O ! what now availeth that I was ? ) Borne the sole daughter of an Emperour , He that the wide West under his rule has , And high hath set his throne where Tiberis doth pas . XXIII Ie , in ...
... fortune false betraide me to thy powre , Was ( O ! what now availeth that I was ? ) Borne the sole daughter of an Emperour , He that the wide West under his rule has , And high hath set his throne where Tiberis doth pas . XXIII Ie , in ...
Page 32
... fortunes guile , Or enimies powre , hath now captived you , Returne from whence ye came , and rest a while , Till ... fortune false , and oddes of armes in field . ' ' Why , dame , ' ( quoth he ) ' what oddes can ever bee , herce . LI ...
... fortunes guile , Or enimies powre , hath now captived you , Returne from whence ye came , and rest a while , Till ... fortune false , and oddes of armes in field . ' ' Why , dame , ' ( quoth he ) ' what oddes can ever bee , herce . LI ...
Page 48
... fortune in her heart had Whose manly hands imbrewd in guilty blood Had never beene , ne ever by his might Had throwne to ground the unregarded right : Yet of his prowesse proofe he since hath made ( I witnes am ) in many a cruell fight ...
... fortune in her heart had Whose manly hands imbrewd in guilty blood Had never beene , ne ever by his might Had throwne to ground the unregarded right : Yet of his prowesse proofe he since hath made ( I witnes am ) in many a cruell fight ...
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