Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1893 - 736 pages |
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... wonne with custom , ' he proceeds , in the letter just quoted from , ' and rough words must be studied with use . For why , a God's name , may not we , as the Greekes , have the kingdom of oure owne language , and measure our accentes ...
... wonne with custom , ' he proceeds , in the letter just quoted from , ' and rough words must be studied with use . For why , a God's name , may not we , as the Greekes , have the kingdom of oure owne language , and measure our accentes ...
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... wonne To blaze her fame , not fearing future harmes ; For well he knew , his Muse would soone be tyred In her high praise , that all the world admired . Yet as Achilles , in those warlike frayes , Did win the palme from all the Grecian ...
... wonne To blaze her fame , not fearing future harmes ; For well he knew , his Muse would soone be tyred In her high praise , that all the world admired . Yet as Achilles , in those warlike frayes , Did win the palme from all the Grecian ...
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... wonne this day , Well worthie be you of that Armory , And proov'd your strength on a strong enimie , Your first adventure : many such I pray , And henceforth ever wish that like succeed it may ! ' XXVIIY Then mounted he upon his Steede ...
... wonne this day , Well worthie be you of that Armory , And proov'd your strength on a strong enimie , Your first adventure : many such I pray , And henceforth ever wish that like succeed it may ! ' XXVIIY Then mounted he upon his Steede ...
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... wonne in fray : And , him rencountring fierce , reskewd the noble pray . XL Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily , Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne , And clash their shields , and shake their swerds on hy , [ traine ; That with ...
... wonne in fray : And , him rencountring fierce , reskewd the noble pray . XL Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily , Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne , And clash their shields , and shake their swerds on hy , [ traine ; That with ...
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... wonne Great pains , and greater praise , both never to be donne . ' XLIV Her words prevaild : And then the learned leach His cunning hand gan to his wounds to lay , And all things els the which his art did teach : Which having seene ...
... wonne Great pains , and greater praise , both never to be donne . ' XLIV Her words prevaild : And then the learned leach His cunning hand gan to his wounds to lay , And all things els the which his art did teach : Which having seene ...
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