Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... lady and many a paramour ! Gather therefore the rose whilst yet is prime , For soon comes age that will her pride deflower ; Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time , Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime . The finest ...
... lady and many a paramour ! Gather therefore the rose whilst yet is prime , For soon comes age that will her pride deflower ; Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time , Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime . The finest ...
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... Lady of the greatest Isle , whose light Like Phœbus lampe throughout the world doth shine , Shed thy faire beames into my feeble eyne , And raise my thoughts too humble and too vile , To thinke of that true glorious type of thine , The ...
... Lady of the greatest Isle , whose light Like Phœbus lampe throughout the world doth shine , Shed thy faire beames into my feeble eyne , And raise my thoughts too humble and too vile , To thinke of that true glorious type of thine , The ...
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... Lady called Amoretta , whom he kept in most grievous torment , because she would not yield him the pleasure of her body . Whereupon Sir Scudamour the lover of that Lady presently tooke on him that adventure . But being unable to ...
... Lady called Amoretta , whom he kept in most grievous torment , because she would not yield him the pleasure of her body . Whereupon Sir Scudamour the lover of that Lady presently tooke on him that adventure . But being unable to ...
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