Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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Selections Edmund Spenser William Lindsay Renwick. What is your owne , that I mote you requite . Certes ( sayd he ) ye mote as now excuse Me from discovering you my name aright : For time yet serves that I the same refuse , But call ye ...
Selections Edmund Spenser William Lindsay Renwick. What is your owne , that I mote you requite . Certes ( sayd he ) ye mote as now excuse Me from discovering you my name aright : For time yet serves that I the same refuse , But call ye ...
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... mote wylde beastes , ne mote the ruder clowne Thereto approch , ne filth mote therein drowne : But Nymphes and Faeries by the bancks did sit , In the woods shade , which did the waters crowne , Keeping all noysome things away from it ...
... mote wylde beastes , ne mote the ruder clowne Thereto approch , ne filth mote therein drowne : But Nymphes and Faeries by the bancks did sit , In the woods shade , which did the waters crowne , Keeping all noysome things away from it ...
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... Mote ( passim ) : may , can ; might . O.E. mót , pres . tense of móste ; Mod.Eng . must . Spenser uses it for both pres . and past tenses . Mott ( C. C. 365 ) : probably a false past tense for met , measured ; O.E. metan . Net ( III ...
... Mote ( passim ) : may , can ; might . O.E. mót , pres . tense of móste ; Mod.Eng . must . Spenser uses it for both pres . and past tenses . Mott ( C. C. 365 ) : probably a false past tense for met , measured ; O.E. metan . Net ( III ...
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