The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1839 |
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... weet , 3 That money can thy wantes at will supply ? Shields , steeds , and armes , and all things for thee meet , It can purvay in twinckling of an eye ; And crownes and kingdomes to thee multiply . Do not I kings create , and throw the ...
... weet , 3 That money can thy wantes at will supply ? Shields , steeds , and armes , and all things for thee meet , It can purvay in twinckling of an eye ; And crownes and kingdomes to thee multiply . Do not I kings create , and throw the ...
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... weet whence all the wealth late shewd by mee Proceeded , lo ! now is reveald to thee . Here is the fountaine of the worldes good ! Now therefore , if thou wilt enriched bee , Avise thee well , and chaunge thy wilfull mood ; Least thou ...
... weet whence all the wealth late shewd by mee Proceeded , lo ! now is reveald to thee . Here is the fountaine of the worldes good ! Now therefore , if thou wilt enriched bee , Avise thee well , and chaunge thy wilfull mood ; Least thou ...
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... weet 2 who called so impórtunely : Againe he heard a more efforced3 voyce , That bad him come in haste : He by and by His feeble feet directed to the 4 cry ; Which to that shady delve him brought at last , Where Mammon earst 5 did sunne ...
... weet 2 who called so impórtunely : Againe he heard a more efforced3 voyce , That bad him come in haste : He by and by His feeble feet directed to the 4 cry ; Which to that shady delve him brought at last , Where Mammon earst 5 did sunne ...
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... weet why on your shield , so goodly scord , - 1 Then , than . 2 Incontinent , immediately . 3 Yfere , together . △ Bord , address . • Read , ask . • Weet , learn . I. 9. — In this place . ] In the persons of Prince Arthur and the two ...
... weet why on your shield , so goodly scord , - 1 Then , than . 2 Incontinent , immediately . 3 Yfere , together . △ Bord , address . • Read , ask . • Weet , learn . I. 9. — In this place . ] In the persons of Prince Arthur and the two ...
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... weet Quick , the first author of all Elfin kynd ; Who , wandring through the world with wearie feet , 1 Empeach , prevent . - 2 Of , by . 3 Ryv'd , torn . LXX . 9. Of life himselfe . ] Prometheus was not deprived of life by Jupiter ...
... weet Quick , the first author of all Elfin kynd ; Who , wandring through the world with wearie feet , 1 Empeach , prevent . - 2 Of , by . 3 Ryv'd , torn . LXX . 9. Of life himselfe . ] Prometheus was not deprived of life by Jupiter ...
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Page 153 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a daintie eare, Such as attonce might not on living ground, Save in this Paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree ; The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th...
Page 32 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 14 - What secret place," quoth he, " can safely hold So huge a masse, and hide from heavens eie? Or where hast thou thy wonne, that so much gold Thou canst preserve from wrong and robbery ? " " Come thou," quoth he,
Page 153 - Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree ; The joyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th' Angelicall soft trembling voyces made To th...
Page 17 - Such as a lamp, whose life does fade away; Or as the moone, cloathed with clowdy night, Does shew to him that walkes in feare and sad affright.
Page 32 - O! th' exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all His works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels He sends to and fro To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe!
Page 15 - Gealosy, out of their sight Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bight ; And trembling Feare still to and fro did fly, And found no place wher safe he shroud him might : Lamenting Sorrow did in darknes lye, And Shame his ugly face did hide from living eye.
Page 115 - As pale and wan as ashes was his looke ; His body leane and meagre as a rake ; And skin all withered like a dryed rooke ; Thereto as cold and drery as a snake ; That seemd to tremble evermore and quake : All in a canvas thin he was bedight, And girded with a belt of twisted brake : Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead mans skull, that seemd a ghastly sight : XXIII.
Page 31 - For lenger time, then that, no living wight Below the earth might suffred be to stay: So backe againe him brought to living light. But all so soone as his enfeebled spright Gan sucke this vitall...
Page 293 - Daily they grow, and daily forth are sent Into the world, it to replenish more; Yet is the stocke not lessened nor spent, But still remaines in everlasting store, As it at first created was of yore...