Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1788 - English poetry |
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... ladies bloud embrewed . I. THOUGH vertue then were held in highest price In those old times of which I doe intreat , Yet then likewise the wicked seede of vice Began to spring , which shortly grew full great , And with their boughes the ...
... ladies bloud embrewed . I. THOUGH vertue then were held in highest price In those old times of which I doe intreat , Yet then likewise the wicked seede of vice Began to spring , which shortly grew full great , And with their boughes the ...
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... lady , which Irena hight , Did to the Faery Queene her way addresse , To whom complayning her afflicted plight , She her besought of gratious redresse : That soveraine queene , that mightie emperesse , Whose glorie is to aide all ...
... lady , which Irena hight , Did to the Faery Queene her way addresse , To whom complayning her afflicted plight , She her besought of gratious redresse : That soveraine queene , that mightie emperesse , Whose glorie is to aide all ...
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... ladies bloud embrew , " And for no cause , but as I shall you shew . " This day as I in solace sate hereby " With a fayre love , whose losse I now do rew , " There came this knight , having in companie " This lucklesse ladie which now ...
... ladies bloud embrew , " And for no cause , but as I shall you shew . " This day as I in solace sate hereby " With a fayre love , whose losse I now do rew , " There came this knight , having in companie " This lucklesse ladie which now ...
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... lady to alight did eft require , Whilest he reformed that uncivell fo , And streight at him with all his force did go ; Who mov'd no more therewith , then when a rocke Is lightly stricken with some stone's throw , But to him leaping ...
... lady to alight did eft require , Whilest he reformed that uncivell fo , And streight at him with all his force did go ; Who mov'd no more therewith , then when a rocke Is lightly stricken with some stone's throw , But to him leaping ...
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... lady kild , But that strange night , the fairer love to gaine , XXV . Did cast about by sleight the truth thereout to [ straine ; And sayd , " Now sure this doubtfull cause's right " Can hardly but by sacrament be tride , " Or else by ...
... lady kild , But that strange night , the fairer love to gaine , XXV . Did cast about by sleight the truth thereout to [ straine ; And sayd , " Now sure this doubtfull cause's right " Can hardly but by sacrament be tride , " Or else by ...
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Page 218 - His state and present plight. vertueis so fitting for a knight, Or for a ladie whom a knight should love, As curtesie, to beare themselves aright To all of each degree as doth behove ? For whether they be placed high above Or low beneath, yet ought they well to know Their good, that none them rightly may reprove Of rudenesse, for not yeelding what they owe ; Great skill it is such duties timely to bestow.
Page 167 - And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill, As from a limbeck, did adown distill. In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still: For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarse his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.
Page 171 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood...
Page 8 - Almighties stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doome aread, That furthest nations filles with awfull dread, Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so divine a read, As thy great iustice praysed over all; The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.
Page 6 - Let none then blame me, if, in discipline Of vertue and of civill uses lore, I do not forme them to the common line Of present dayes which are corrupted sore...
Page 84 - In vaine' (said then old Meliboe) 'doe men The heavens of their fortunes fault accuse, Sith they know best what is the best for them; For they to each such fortune doe diffuse, As they doe know each can most aptly use: For not that which men covet most is best, Nor that thing worst which men do most refuse ; But fittest is, that all contented rest With that they hold : each hath his fortune in his brest.
Page 95 - All they without were raunged in a ring, And daunced round; but in the midst of them Three other Ladies did both daunce and sing, The whilest the rest them round about did hemme, And like a girlond did in compasse stemme...
Page 140 - Nature had establisht first In good estate, and in meet order ranged, She did pervert, and all their statutes burst : And all the worlds faire frame (which none yet durst Of gods or men to alter or misguide...
Page 167 - Then came the Autumn, all in yellow clad, As though he joyed in his plenteous store, Laden with fruits that made him laugh, full glad That he had...
Page 113 - As beauties lovely baite, that doth procure Great warriours oft their rigour to represse, And mighty hands forget their manlinesse ; Drawne with the powre of an heart-robbing eye, And wrapt in fetters of a golden tresse.