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... wise Whylom1 the pillars of th ' earth did sustain , And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise And in the neck of all the world to reign ; Oft from those grave affairs were wont abstain , With the sweet lady Muses for to play : So Ennius ...
... wise Whylom1 the pillars of th ' earth did sustain , And taught ambitious Rome to tyrannise And in the neck of all the world to reign ; Oft from those grave affairs were wont abstain , With the sweet lady Muses for to play : So Ennius ...
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... wise itself will forth display . E. S. To all the gracious and beautiful Ladies in the Court . THE Chian painter , when he was required To pourtray Venus in her perfect hue ; To make his work more absolute , desired Of all the fairest ...
... wise itself will forth display . E. S. To all the gracious and beautiful Ladies in the Court . THE Chian painter , when he was required To pourtray Venus in her perfect hue ; To make his work more absolute , desired Of all the fairest ...
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... wise , He stay'd his hand ; and gan himself advise To prove his sense , and tempt her feigned truth . Wringing her hands , in women's piteous wise , Tho can she weep , to stir up gentle ruth 4 Both for her noble blood , and for her ...
... wise , He stay'd his hand ; and gan himself advise To prove his sense , and tempt her feigned truth . Wringing her hands , in women's piteous wise , Tho can she weep , to stir up gentle ruth 4 Both for her noble blood , and for her ...
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... wise , As ever Proteus to himself could make : Sometime a fowl , sometime a fish in lake , Now like a fox , now like a dragon fell ; That of himself he oft for fear would quake , And oft would fly away . O who can tell The hidden power ...
... wise , As ever Proteus to himself could make : Sometime a fowl , sometime a fish in lake , Now like a fox , now like a dragon fell ; That of himself he oft for fear would quake , And oft would fly away . O who can tell The hidden power ...
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... wise , As ever Proteus to himself could make : Sometime a fowl , sometime a fish in lake , Now like a fox , now like a dragon fell ; That of himself he oft for fear would quake , And oft would fly away . O who can tell The hidden power ...
... wise , As ever Proteus to himself could make : Sometime a fowl , sometime a fish in lake , Now like a fox , now like a dragon fell ; That of himself he oft for fear would quake , And oft would fly away . O who can tell The hidden power ...
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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 Ne¹ 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...