Complete Works of Edmund SpenserMacmillan, 1893 - 736 pages |
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Page 16
... downe , And ever - drizling raine upon the loft , [ sowne Mixt with a murmuring winde , much like the Of swarming Bees , did cast him in a swowne . No other noyse , nor peoples troublous cryes , As still are wont t'annoy the walled ...
... downe , And ever - drizling raine upon the loft , [ sowne Mixt with a murmuring winde , much like the Of swarming Bees , did cast him in a swowne . No other noyse , nor peoples troublous cryes , As still are wont t'annoy the walled ...
Page 19
... downe his shield from blame him fairly blest . XIX Who , thereat wondrous wroth , the sleeping Of native vertue gan eftsoones revive ; [ spark And at his haughty helmet making mark , So hugely stroke , that it the steele did rive , And ...
... downe his shield from blame him fairly blest . XIX Who , thereat wondrous wroth , the sleeping Of native vertue gan eftsoones revive ; [ spark And at his haughty helmet making mark , So hugely stroke , that it the steele did rive , And ...
Page 23
... downe fell his angry mood . At last , in close hart shutting up her payne , Arose the virgin , borne of heavenly brood , And to her snowy Palfrey got agayne , To seeke her strayed Champion if she might attayne . IX The Lyon would not ...
... downe fell his angry mood . At last , in close hart shutting up her payne , Arose the virgin , borne of heavenly brood , And to her snowy Palfrey got agayne , To seeke her strayed Champion if she might attayne . IX The Lyon would not ...
Page 36
... downe to Plutoes house are come bilive : Which passing through , on every side them stood The trembling ghosts with sad amazed mood , Chattring their iron teeth , and staring wide With stony eies ; and all the hellish brood Of feends ...
... downe to Plutoes house are come bilive : Which passing through , on every side them stood The trembling ghosts with sad amazed mood , Chattring their iron teeth , and staring wide With stony eies ; and all the hellish brood Of feends ...
Page 44
... downe to rest in middest of the race : ayre , The goddesse wroth gan fowly her disgrace , And badd the waters , which from her did flow , Be such as she her selfe was then in place . Thenceforth her waters wexed dull and slow , And all ...
... downe to rest in middest of the race : ayre , The goddesse wroth gan fowly her disgrace , And badd the waters , which from her did flow , Be such as she her selfe was then in place . Thenceforth her waters wexed dull and slow , And all ...
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