Spenser: Book I of the Faery Queene Edited, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1892 - 257 pages |
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... elfin knight he bad him fly , Where he slept soundly void of evil thought , And with false shewes abuse his fantasy ; In sort as he him schooled privily . And that new creature , borne without her dew , Full of the makers guile , with ...
... elfin knight he bad him fly , Where he slept soundly void of evil thought , And with false shewes abuse his fantasy ; In sort as he him schooled privily . And that new creature , borne without her dew , Full of the makers guile , with ...
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... Elfin knight , Are you in this misformed house to dwell ? We may not chaunge ( quoth he ) this evil plight , Till we be bathed in a living well ; That is the terme prescribed by the spell . O how , said he , mote I that well out find ...
... Elfin knight , Are you in this misformed house to dwell ? We may not chaunge ( quoth he ) this evil plight , Till we be bathed in a living well ; That is the terme prescribed by the spell . O how , said he , mote I that well out find ...
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... elfin knight in presence came , And false Duessa , seeming lady faire , A gentle husher , Vanitie by name , Made rowme , and passage for them did prepaire : So goodly brought them to the lowest staire Of her high throne , where they on ...
... elfin knight in presence came , And false Duessa , seeming lady faire , A gentle husher , Vanitie by name , Made rowme , and passage for them did prepaire : So goodly brought them to the lowest staire Of her high throne , where they on ...
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... elfin knight , which ought that warlike wage , Disdaind to loose the meed he wonne in fray , And him rencountring fierce , reskewd the noble pray . 40 Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily , Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne , And ...
... elfin knight , which ought that warlike wage , Disdaind to loose the meed he wonne in fray , And him rencountring fierce , reskewd the noble pray . 40 Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily , Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne , And ...
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... elfin knight , Having escapt so sad ensamples in his sight . 2 Yet sad he was that his too hastie speede The faire Duess ' had forst him leave behind ; And yet more sad , that Una his deare dreed Her truth had staind with treason so ...
... elfin knight , Having escapt so sad ensamples in his sight . 2 Yet sad he was that his too hastie speede The faire Duess ' had forst him leave behind ; And yet more sad , that Una his deare dreed Her truth had staind with treason so ...
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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...