Spenser's Britomart: From Books III, IV, and V of the Faery QueeneGinn, 1896 - 265 pages |
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... mote 8 not withstond : Nothing on earth mote always happy been ! Great hazard were it , and adventure fond , 10 To lose long - gotten honour with one evil hond.11 1 Fett , fetch . 2 Then , than ; this form occurs frequently in the poem ...
... mote 8 not withstond : Nothing on earth mote always happy been ! Great hazard were it , and adventure fond , 10 To lose long - gotten honour with one evil hond.11 1 Fett , fetch . 2 Then , than ; this form occurs frequently in the poem ...
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... mote him hold , And scarce them leisure gave her passing to behold . 15 Still as she fled her eye she backward threw , As fearing evil that pursued her fast ; And her fair yellow locks behind her flew , Loosely dispersed with puff of ...
... mote him hold , And scarce them leisure gave her passing to behold . 15 Still as she fled her eye she backward threw , As fearing evil that pursued her fast ; And her fair yellow locks behind her flew , Loosely dispersed with puff of ...
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... mote fly , To rescue her from shameful villainy . The prince and Guyon equally bylive 10 Herself pursued , in hope to win thereby Most goodly meed , the fairest dame alive : But after the foul foster Timias did strive . 1 Importunes ...
... mote fly , To rescue her from shameful villainy . The prince and Guyon equally bylive 10 Herself pursued , in hope to win thereby Most goodly meed , the fairest dame alive : But after the foul foster Timias did strive . 1 Importunes ...
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... mote 12 with her compare : 1 Liefer , preferable . 2 That death me liefer were then such despite , i.e. I would rather die than do what I should so scorn to do . 3 Ne list me , nor do I desire to . 4 Errant Damsel , i.e. Una , the ...
... mote 12 with her compare : 1 Liefer , preferable . 2 That death me liefer were then such despite , i.e. I would rather die than do what I should so scorn to do . 3 Ne list me , nor do I desire to . 4 Errant Damsel , i.e. Una , the ...
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... Mote prince's place beseem so decked to be . Which stately manner whenas they did see , The image of superfluous riotize , 6 Exceeding much the state of mean7 degree , They greatly wond'red whence so sumptuous guise Might be maintained ...
... Mote prince's place beseem so decked to be . Which stately manner whenas they did see , The image of superfluous riotize , 6 Exceeding much the state of mean7 degree , They greatly wond'red whence so sumptuous guise Might be maintained ...
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adventure Amongst Amoret apayed arms Artegall assay bade beauty Belphoebe Blandamour blood bold breast Britomart Briton brought Certes Chrysaor cruel dame dear despite dight dismayed doth dreadful Eftsoones ensample faery knight Faery Queene fair Britomart fair ladies fairest false fear fell fiercely fight Florimell foul gentle Glaucè goodly Grantorto grief ground habergeon hand hard hath heart heaven Hight lady late light living loath Lord Lord Grey maid Maidenhead Merlin mighty mind mote nigh noble nought pain Paridell peril poet pow'r prince quoth Redcross Redcross knight rest revenge Satyrane Scudamour seemed shame shield sight sith soon sore sorrow spear Spenser sprite steed Stound stout strange stroke Talus tell thee thence thereof therewith things thou thought Triamond unto villeins warlike ween weet whenas whilom wight wist wonder wound wrath wreak wretched yield
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Page ix - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Page xxii - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page xxx - 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 xv - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Princes
Page xxvii - 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 xv - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone. Unhappy wight, born to disastrous end, That doth his life in so long 'tendance spend...
Page 94 - And in the thickest covert of that shade, There was a pleasant arbour, not by art, But of the trees...
Page xxix - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.
Page 116 - Who seem'd of riper years than the other swain, Yet was that other swain this elder's sire, And gave him being, common to them twain : His garment was disguised very vain, And his embroidered bonnet sat awry ; Twixt both his hands few sparks he close did strain, Which still he blew, and kindled busily, That soon they life conceiv'd and forth in flames did fly.