The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1596 |
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... hath together tide . 1 Such was that hag which with Duessa roade , And , serving her in her malitious use 2 To hurt good knights , was , as it were , her baude To sell her borrowed beautie to abuse : For though , like withered tree that ...
... hath together tide . 1 Such was that hag which with Duessa roade , And , serving her in her malitious use 2 To hurt good knights , was , as it were , her baude To sell her borrowed beautie to abuse : For though , like withered tree that ...
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... hath done my love this foule despight ! Why do I not it wreake on thee now in my might ! 53 " Discourteous , disloyall Britomart , Untrue to God , and unto man uniust ! What vengeance due can equall thy desart , That hast with shamefull ...
... hath done my love this foule despight ! Why do I not it wreake on thee now in my might ! 53 " Discourteous , disloyall Britomart , Untrue to God , and unto man uniust ! What vengeance due can equall thy desart , That hast with shamefull ...
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... hath him lightly 2 overborne . 7 Who , with the sudden stroke astonisht sore , Upon the ground awhile in slomber lay ; The whiles his Love away the other bore , And , shewing her , did Paridell upbray : " Lo ! sluggish knight , the ...
... hath him lightly 2 overborne . 7 Who , with the sudden stroke astonisht sore , Upon the ground awhile in slomber lay ; The whiles his Love away the other bore , And , shewing her , did Paridell upbray : " Lo ! sluggish knight , the ...
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... Hath lately caus'd to be proclaim'd each where 1 Aread , explain . XXV . 7. - A Girdle did uptake . ] In Book III . Canto VIII 2 , we are told that the beast , which the witch had sent after Florimel , returned with her girdle ; and we ...
... Hath lately caus'd to be proclaim'd each where 1 Aread , explain . XXV . 7. - A Girdle did uptake . ] In Book III . Canto VIII 2 , we are told that the beast , which the witch had sent after Florimel , returned with her girdle ; and we ...
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... hath quite defaste , And robd the world of threasure endlesse deare , The which mote have enriched all us heare . O cursed Eld , 2 the canker - worme of writs ! How may these rimes , so rude as doth appeare , Hope to endure , sith ...
... hath quite defaste , And robd the world of threasure endlesse deare , The which mote have enriched all us heare . O cursed Eld , 2 the canker - worme of writs ! How may these rimes , so rude as doth appeare , Hope to endure , sith ...
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amongst Amoret approching armes battell beast beheld Blandamour bloud brest Britomart brought Calidore Canto chaunst cruell dame damzell daunger deare despight devize dight dismayd doth dread dreadfull Eftsoones Elfin Knight evermore FAERIE QUEENE faire faire Lady farre fayre feare fell fiercely fight Florimell fortune foule Gainst gentle goodly grace Grantorto groning hand hart hath heavens herselfe hight himselfe iustice knight ladies late layd light litle mayd mote nigh noble nought paine Paridell perill Poana powre Prince rest salvage sayd Scudamour seem'd shame shepheards shew shield sight Sir Artegall sith skie sonne soone sore sorie speach speare spide Squire stayd steed streight stroke sunne Talus thee thence thereof thereto thou thought Triamond unto uppon vaine vertue warlike weene weet whenas whilest wight wize wonne wont wound wretched wyde yeeld yron
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Page 256 - Upon the pillours of eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie : For all that moveth doth in change delight: But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabbaoth hight: O that great Sabbaoth God graunt me that Sabaoths sight!
Page 235 - For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst become a stonie one ; And men themselves, the which at first were framed Of earthly mould, and form'd of flesh and bone, Are now transformed into hardest stone...
Page 251 - Yet is he nought but parting of the breath; Ne ought to see, but like a shade to weene, Unbodied, unsoul'd, unheard, unseene...
Page 254 - Then since within this wide great universe Nothing doth firme and permanent appeare, But all things tost and turned by transverse: What then should let, but I aloft should reare My trophee, and from all the triumph beare? Now...
Page 13 - And all within, the riven walls were hung With ragged monuments of times forepast, All which the sad effects of discord sung...
Page 6 - OF Court, it seemes, men Courtesie doe call, For that it there most useth to abound ; And well beseemeth that in princes hall That vertue should be plentifully found, Which of all goodly manners is the ground, And roote of civill conversation...
Page 154 - It is the mynd that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore; For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store, And other, that hath...
Page 3 - The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde, In this delightfull land of Faery, Are so exceeding spacious and wyde, And sprinckled with such sweet variety, Of all that pleasant is to eare or eye...
Page 167 - But, soone as he appeared to their vew, They vanisht all away out of his sight, And cleane were gone, which way he never knew; All save the Shepheard, who, for fell despight Of that displeasure, broke his bag-pipe quight, And made great mone for that unhappy turne : But Calidore, though no lesse sory wight For that mishap, yet seeing him to mourne, Drew neare, that he the truth of all by him mote learne...
Page 153 - Whylest thus he talkt, the knight with greedy eare Hong still upon his melting mouth attent; Whose sensefull words empierst his hart so neare, That he was rapt with double ravishment, Both of his speach, that wrought him great content, And also of the...