Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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Page 98
... armes and silver shielde , Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine , The cruell markes of many ' a bloudy fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt , As much disdayning to ...
... armes and silver shielde , Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine , The cruell markes of many ' a bloudy fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt , As much disdayning to ...
Page 105
... armes may blaze . By this the dreadfull Beast drew nigh to hand , Halfe flying , and halfe footing in his hast , That with his largenesse measured much land , And made wide shadow under his huge wast : As mountaine doth the valley ...
... armes may blaze . By this the dreadfull Beast drew nigh to hand , Halfe flying , and halfe footing in his hast , That with his largenesse measured much land , And made wide shadow under his huge wast : As mountaine doth the valley ...
Page 110
... armes to leave and helmet to unlace . xxvii Not that great Champion of the antique world , Whom famous Poctes verse so much doth vaunt , And hath for twelve huge labours high extold , So many furies and sharpe fits did haunt , When him ...
... armes to leave and helmet to unlace . xxvii Not that great Champion of the antique world , Whom famous Poctes verse so much doth vaunt , And hath for twelve huge labours high extold , So many furies and sharpe fits did haunt , When him ...
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