Spenser: Book I of the Faery Queene Edited, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1892 - 257 pages |
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... wight to shrowd it did constrain , And this faire couple eke to shroud themselves were fain . 7 Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand , A shadie grove not farr away they spide , That promist ayde the tempest to withstand : Whose ...
... wight to shrowd it did constrain , And this faire couple eke to shroud themselves were fain . 7 Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand , A shadie grove not farr away they spide , That promist ayde the tempest to withstand : Whose ...
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... , In which that wicked wight his dayes doth weare : For to all knighthood it is foule disgrace , That such a cursed creature lives so long a space . 32 Far hence ( quoth he ) in wastfull wildernesse 10 THE FAERY QUEENE .
... , In which that wicked wight his dayes doth weare : For to all knighthood it is foule disgrace , That such a cursed creature lives so long a space . 32 Far hence ( quoth he ) in wastfull wildernesse 10 THE FAERY QUEENE .
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... wight May ever passe , but thorough great distresse . Now ( sayd the lady ) draweth toward night , And well I wote , that of your later fight Ye all forwearied be : for what so strong , But wanting rest will also want of might ? The ...
... wight May ever passe , but thorough great distresse . Now ( sayd the lady ) draweth toward night , And well I wote , that of your later fight Ye all forwearied be : for what so strong , But wanting rest will also want of might ? The ...
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... wight , that lived yit ; Which to expresse , he bends his gentle wit , And thinking of those braunches greene to frame A girlond for her dainty forehead fit , He pluckt a bough ; out of whose rift there came Smal drops of gory bloud ...
... wight , that lived yit ; Which to expresse , he bends his gentle wit , And thinking of those braunches greene to frame A girlond for her dainty forehead fit , He pluckt a bough ; out of whose rift there came Smal drops of gory bloud ...
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... wight Whose borrowed beautie now appeareth plaine To have before bewitched all mens sight ; O leave her soone , or let her soone be slaine . Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine , Eftsoones I thought her such , as she me told , And ...
... wight Whose borrowed beautie now appeareth plaine To have before bewitched all mens sight ; O leave her soone , or let her soone be slaine . Her loathly visage viewing with disdaine , Eftsoones I thought her such , as she me told , And ...
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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...