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... thought , And with false shewes abuse his fantasy ; In sort as he him schooled privily . And that new creature , borne without her dew , Full of the makers guyle , with usage sly He taught to imitate that lady trew , Whose semblance she ...
... thought , And with false shewes abuse his fantasy ; In sort as he him schooled privily . And that new creature , borne without her dew , Full of the makers guyle , with usage sly He taught to imitate that lady trew , Whose semblance she ...
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... thought her such as she me told , And would have kild her ; but with faigned paine The false witch did my wrathfull hand withhold : So left her , where she now is turnd to treën mould . - " Thensforth I tooke Duessa for my dame , And in ...
... thought her such as she me told , And would have kild her ; but with faigned paine The false witch did my wrathfull hand withhold : So left her , where she now is turnd to treën mould . - " Thensforth I tooke Duessa for my dame , And in ...
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... thought her to have defilde , And made the vassall of his pleasures vilde . Yet first he cast by treatie , and by traynes , Her to persuade that stubborne fort to yilde : For greater conquest of hard love he gaynes , That workes it to ...
... thought her to have defilde , And made the vassall of his pleasures vilde . Yet first he cast by treatie , and by traynes , Her to persuade that stubborne fort to yilde : For greater conquest of hard love he gaynes , That workes it to ...
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... thought , That her perswaded to disclose the breach Which love and fortune in her heart had wrought ; And said , " Faire sir , I hope good hap hath brought You to inquere the secrets of my griefe ; Or that your wisdome will direct my ...
... thought , That her perswaded to disclose the breach Which love and fortune in her heart had wrought ; And said , " Faire sir , I hope good hap hath brought You to inquere the secrets of my griefe ; Or that your wisdome will direct my ...
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... thought at first encounter to have slaine . But wise and wary was that noble pere ; And , lightly leaping from so monstrous maine , Did fayre avoide the violence him nere ; [ beare ; It booted nought to thinke such thunderbolts to Ne ...
... thought at first encounter to have slaine . But wise and wary was that noble pere ; And , lightly leaping from so monstrous maine , Did fayre avoide the violence him nere ; [ beare ; It booted nought to thinke such thunderbolts to Ne ...
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Page 414 - Now welcome, Night! thou night so long expected, That long daies labour doest at last defray, And all my cares, which cruell Love collected, Hast sumd in one, and cancelled for aye. Spread thy broad wing over my Love and me, That no man may us see; And in thy sable mantle us enwrap, From feare of perrill and foule horror free.
Page 333 - November; he full grosse and fat As fed with lard, and that right well might seeme; For he had been a fatting hogs of late, That yet his browes with sweat did reek and steem, And yet the season was full sharp and breem : In planting eeke he took no small delight.
Page 414 - How slowly does sad Time his feathers move ? Hast thee, O fayrest Planet, to thy home, Within the Westerne fome : Thy tyred steedes long since have need of rest. Long...
Page 413 - That even to the heavens theyr shouting shrill Doth reach, and all the firmament doth fill; To which the people standing all about, As in approvance, doe thereto applaud, And loud advaunce her laud; And evermore they Hymen, Hymen sing, That al the woods them answer, and theyr eccho ring.
Page 234 - 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...
Page 413 - Almighties view ; Of her ye virgins learne obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces : Bring her up to th' high altar, that she may The sacred ceremonies there partake, The which do endlesse matrimony make ; And let the roring Organs loudly play The praises of the Lord in lively notes ; The whiles, with hollow throates, The Choristers the joyous Antheme sing, That al the woods may answere, and their eccho ring.
Page 413 - The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with goodly modesty, That suffers not one look to glaunce awry, Which may let in a little thought unsownd.
Page 83 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...
Page 419 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in, and it more fairely dight With chearefull grace and amiable sight; For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Page 43 - So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth Magnificence in particular ; which vertue for that (according to Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all...