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... thee ; They unto thee , and thou to them , most dear : Dear as thou art unto thyself , so love 5 That loves and honours thee ; as doth behove . E. S. * The love , ' & c .: Oxenford wrote verses ; for instance , a Dialogue be ween Fancy ...
... thee ; They unto thee , and thou to them , most dear : Dear as thou art unto thyself , so love 5 That loves and honours thee ; as doth behove . E. S. * The love , ' & c .: Oxenford wrote verses ; for instance , a Dialogue be ween Fancy ...
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... thee therefore , right noble Lord , I send This present of my pains , it to defend . 1 Also . E. S. To the Right Honourable the Earl of Cumberland . † REDOUBTED Lord , in whose courageous mind The flower of chivalry , now bloss'ming ...
... thee therefore , right noble Lord , I send This present of my pains , it to defend . 1 Also . E. S. To the Right Honourable the Earl of Cumberland . † REDOUBTED Lord , in whose courageous mind The flower of chivalry , now bloss'ming ...
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... thee far unfit ; Nought is thy worth disparaged thereby . But when my Muse , whose feathers , nothing flit , 2 Do yet but flag and lowly learn to fly , Ascend . With bolder wing shall dare aloft to stye3 To the last praises of this ...
... thee far unfit ; Nought is thy worth disparaged thereby . But when my Muse , whose feathers , nothing flit , 2 Do yet but flag and lowly learn to fly , Ascend . With bolder wing shall dare aloft to stye3 To the last praises of this ...
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... thee , that art the summer's nightingale , Thy sovereign Godess's most dear delight , Why do I send this rustic madrigale , That may thy tuneful ear unseason * quite ? Thou only fit this argument to write , In whose high thoughts ...
... thee , that art the summer's nightingale , Thy sovereign Godess's most dear delight , Why do I send this rustic madrigale , That may thy tuneful ear unseason * quite ? Thou only fit this argument to write , In whose high thoughts ...
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... thee . ' That when he heard , in great perplexity , His gall did grate1 for grief and high disdain ; And , knitting all his force , got one hand free , Wherewith he gript her gorge2 with so great pain , That soon to loose her wicked ...
... thee . ' That when he heard , in great perplexity , His gall did grate1 for grief and high disdain ; And , knitting all his force , got one hand free , Wherewith he gript her gorge2 with so great pain , That soon to loose her wicked ...
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Androgeus Archimago arms beast behold Belinus Belphoebe blood bold Britomart Britons brought CANTO courage courser cruel dame damsel deadly dear death delight diately disdain dismay'd doth dreadful Duessa EDMUND SPENSER Eftsoons Elfin Knight espied eternal evermore eyes Faerie Queene Faery Knight fair fair ladies false fast fear feeble fell fierce fight fled foul gentle goodly grace grief ground Guyon hand haste hath heart heaven heavenly hight honour kingdom heir lady late light living lord lust Mammon Maximian mighty mortal naught Neš never nigh noble pain palmer praise Prince proud quoth rage Redcross Knight secret seem'd shame shield sight Sith soon sore sorrow spear Spenser sprite squire steed strong sweet thee thence thereof Therewith thou turn'd unto unwares wand'ring wanton warlike weary ween whenas wicked wight wondrous wound wrath wretched XXXII
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Page 286 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting...
Page 20 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 3 - The generall end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 237 - Where soone he slumbred fearing not be harmd : The whiles with a love lay she thus him sweetly charmd.
Page 65 - And in his lap an heap of com he told ; For of his wicked pelf his god he made, And unto hell himself for money sold : Accursed usury was all his trade ; And right and wrong alike in equal balance weigh'd.
Page 263 - If so be the Faerye Queene be fairer in your eie than the Nine Muses, and Hobgoblin runne away with the Garland from Apollo: Marke what I saye, and yet I will not say that I thought, but there an End for this once, and fare you well, till God or some good Aungell putte you in a better minde (Ibid., pp.
Page 83 - And all the way their merry pipes they sound, That all the woods with double eccho ring, And with their horned feet do weare the ground, Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant spring. So towards old Sylvanus they her bring...
Page 286 - 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 51 - Ah ! see the virgin rose, how sweetly shee Doth first peepe foorth with bashfull modestee, That fairer seemes the lesse ye see her may ! Lo ! see soone after how more bold and free Her bared bosome she doth broad display ! Lo ! see soone after how she fades and falls away...
Page 51 - Of all that might delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it hear, To...