Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1893 - 736 pages |
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... backe , and forced her to stay : smoke , Therewith enrag'd she loudly gan to bray , And perill without show : therefore your stroke , And turning fierce her speckled taile advaunst , Sir Knight , with - hold , till further tryall made ...
... backe , and forced her to stay : smoke , Therewith enrag'd she loudly gan to bray , And perill without show : therefore your stroke , And turning fierce her speckled taile advaunst , Sir Knight , with - hold , till further tryall made ...
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... backe rebutte , and ech to other yealdeth land . XVI As when two rams , stird with ambitious pride , Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke , Their horned fronts so fierce on either side Doe meete , that , with the terror of the ...
... backe rebutte , and ech to other yealdeth land . XVI As when two rams , stird with ambitious pride , Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke , Their horned fronts so fierce on either side Doe meete , that , with the terror of the ...
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... backe retourned with some labour lost ; And in the way , as shee did weepe and waile , A knight her mett in mighty armes embost , Yet knight was not for all his bragging bost ; But subtill Archimag , that Una sought By traynes into new ...
... backe retourned with some labour lost ; And in the way , as shee did weepe and waile , A knight her mett in mighty armes embost , Yet knight was not for all his bragging bost ; But subtill Archimag , that Una sought By traynes into new ...
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... backe and belly still did spare , To fill his bags , and richesse to compare : Yet childe ne kinsman living had he none To leave them to ; but thorough daily care To get , and nightly feare to lose his owne , He led a wretched life ...
... backe and belly still did spare , To fill his bags , and richesse to compare : Yet childe ne kinsman living had he none To leave them to ; but thorough daily care To get , and nightly feare to lose his owne , He led a wretched life ...
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... backe retyred to her cave , Untill the witches speach she gan to heare , Saying ; ' Yet , O thou dreaded Dame ! I crave Abyde , till I have told the message which I have . ' XXII She stayd ; and foorth Duessa gan proceede . ' O ! thou ...
... backe retyred to her cave , Untill the witches speach she gan to heare , Saying ; ' Yet , O thou dreaded Dame ! I crave Abyde , till I have told the message which I have . ' XXII She stayd ; and foorth Duessa gan proceede . ' O ! thou ...
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