Spenser: Book I of the Faery Queene Edited, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1892 - 257 pages |
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... backe . Thus as they past , The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast , And angry Jove an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his lemans lap so fast , That everie wight to shrowd it did constrain , And this faire couple eke to ...
... backe . Thus as they past , The day with cloudes was suddeine overcast , And angry Jove an hideous storme of raine Did poure into his lemans lap so fast , That everie wight to shrowd it did constrain , And this faire couple eke to ...
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... backe returne with foule disgrace , Yet wisedome warnes , whilest foot is in the gate , To stay the steppe , ere forced to retrate . This is the wandring wood , this Errours den , A monster vile , whom God and man does hate : Therefore ...
... backe returne with foule disgrace , Yet wisedome warnes , whilest foot is in the gate , To stay the steppe , ere forced to retrate . This is the wandring wood , this Errours den , A monster vile , whom God and man does hate : Therefore ...
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... backe to turne againe ; For light she hated as the deadly bale , Ay wont in desert darknes to remaine , Where plain none might her see , nor she see any plaine . 17 Which when the valiant Elfe perceiv'd , he lept As lyon fierce upon the ...
... backe to turne againe ; For light she hated as the deadly bale , Ay wont in desert darknes to remaine , Where plain none might her see , nor she see any plaine . 17 Which when the valiant Elfe perceiv'd , he lept As lyon fierce upon the ...
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... backe : Her vomit full of bookes and papers was , With loathly frogs and toades , which eyes did lacke , And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthy parbreake all the place defiled has . 21 As when old father Nilus gins to ...
... backe : Her vomit full of bookes and papers was , With loathly frogs and toades , which eyes did lacke , And creeping sought way in the weedy gras : Her filthy parbreake all the place defiled has . 21 As when old father Nilus gins to ...
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... backe returning by the yvorie dore , Remounted up as light as chearefull larke ; And on his litle winges the dreame he bore In hast unto his lord , where he him left afore . 45 Who all this while with charmes and hidden artes Had made a ...
... backe returning by the yvorie dore , Remounted up as light as chearefull larke ; And on his litle winges the dreame he bore In hast unto his lord , where he him left afore . 45 Who all this while with charmes and hidden artes Had made a ...
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Archimago Ariosto armes Bartsch beast blood bloud Brachet brest CANTO Chanson de Roland Chaucer Cotgrave cruell dame deadly deare death Dict Diez doth dragon dread dreadfull Ducange elfin knight English eternall eyes Faery Queene faire faire lady false Duessa fast feare fierce gentle Gloss goodly Goth grace griefe groning hand hart hath heaven heavenly hight house of Pride Icel king lady Latin Lord Lord Leicester meaning mighty Milton Nares never nigh nought paine Paynim phrase poets powre pray pret pride pron proud quoth rage Red Cross Knight seemd seems selfe sense Shepheards Calender shew shield shyning sight Skeat s. v. sonne sore Spenser spide spright Stratmann sweet thee thence thou tree Truth unto vaine verb viii wandring weary weene wondrous wont word wound wyde yron
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Page 7 - And, more, to lulle him in his slumber soft, A trickling streame from high rock tumbling downe, And ever-drizling raine upon the loft, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming bees, did cast him in a swowne : No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes, As still are wont t' annoy the walled towne, Might there be heard: but carelesse Quiet lyes, Wrapt in eternall silence farre from enimyes.
Page 9 - By this the Northerne wagoner had set His sevenfold teme behind the stedfast starre, That was in Ocean waves yet never wet, But firme is fixt, and sendeth light from farre To all, that in the wide deepe wandring arre...
Page 155 - In that Faery Queene I meane glory in my generall intention, but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious person of our soveraine the Queene, and her kingdome in Faery Land.
Page 106 - Come, come away, fraile, feeble, fleshly wight, Ne let vaine words bewitch thy manly hart, Ne divelish thoughts dismay thy constant spright. In heavenly mercies hast thou not a part? Why shouldst thou then despeire, that chosen art?
Page xxii - Queene to assygne her some one of her knights to take on him that exployt. Presently that clownish person, upstarting, desired that adventure : whereat the Queene much wondering, and the Lady much gainesaying, yet he earnestly importuned his desire.
Page xxix - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
Page 74 - Upon the top of all his loftie crest, A bunch of haires discolourd diversly, With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest, Did shake, and seemd to daunce for jollity; Like to an almond tree ymounted hye On top of greene Selinis all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath, that under heaven is blowne.
Page xxii - ... seemed the goodliest man in al that company, and was well liked of the lady.
Page xx - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall: first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis; then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of...
Page 110 - She was araied all in lilly white, And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, With wine and water fild up to the hight, In which a serpent did himselfe enfold, That horrour made to all that did behold ; But she no...