Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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Page 35
... face out showe : Let him , if he dare , His brightnesse compare With hers , to have the overthrowe . Shewe thy selfe Cynthia with thy silver rayes , and be not abasht : When shee the beames of her beauty displayes , O how art thou dasht ...
... face out showe : Let him , if he dare , His brightnesse compare With hers , to have the overthrowe . Shewe thy selfe Cynthia with thy silver rayes , and be not abasht : When shee the beames of her beauty displayes , O how art thou dasht ...
Page 87
... face , Thence to the soule darts amorous desyre , And robs the harts of those which it admyre , Therewith thou pointest thy Sons poysned arrow , That wounds the life , and wastes the inmost marrow . How vainely then doe ydle wits invent ...
... face , Thence to the soule darts amorous desyre , And robs the harts of those which it admyre , Therewith thou pointest thy Sons poysned arrow , That wounds the life , and wastes the inmost marrow . How vainely then doe ydle wits invent ...
Page 91
... face . Loath that foule blot , that hellish fierbrand , Disloiall lust , faire beauties foulest blame , That base ... faces first impression . Therefore to make your beautie more appeare , It you behoves to love , and forth to lay That ...
... face . Loath that foule blot , that hellish fierbrand , Disloiall lust , faire beauties foulest blame , That base ... faces first impression . Therefore to make your beautie more appeare , It you behoves to love , and forth to lay That ...
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