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Page 589 - Why blush ye, love, to give to me your hand, The pledge of all our band ! Sing, ye sweet Angels, Alleluya sing, That all the woods may answere, and your eccho ring.
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Page 15 - The knight was well content; So with that godly father to his home they went. xxxiv. A litle lowly Hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people that did pas In...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Complete Works of Edmund Spenser: Edited from the Original Editions and Manuscripts The Globe edition. Macmillan's Globe library |
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| Editor | Richard Morris |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1897 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 736 pages |
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