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... thinke , right honourable Lord , By this rude rime to memorize thy name , Whose learned Muse hath writ her own record In golden verse , worthy immortal fame : Thou much more fit ( were leasure to the same ) Thy gracious soverains ...
... thinke , right honourable Lord , By this rude rime to memorize thy name , Whose learned Muse hath writ her own record In golden verse , worthy immortal fame : Thou much more fit ( were leasure to the same ) Thy gracious soverains ...
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... thinke of that true glorious type of thine , The argument of mine afflicted stile : The which to heare vouchsafe , Odearest dread , awhile I. A GENTLE knight was pricking on the plaine , Yeladd in mightie armes and silver shielde ...
... thinke of that true glorious type of thine , The argument of mine afflicted stile : The which to heare vouchsafe , Odearest dread , awhile I. A GENTLE knight was pricking on the plaine , Yeladd in mightie armes and silver shielde ...
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... thinke that gentle dame so light , For whose defence he was to shed his blood . At last dull wearines of former fight Having yrockt asleepe bis irkesome spright , That troublous Dreame gan freshly tosse his braine With bowres , and beds ...
... thinke that gentle dame so light , For whose defence he was to shed his blood . At last dull wearines of former fight Having yrockt asleepe bis irkesome spright , That troublous Dreame gan freshly tosse his braine With bowres , and beds ...
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... thinke how she through guyleful handeling , Though true as touch , though daughter of a king , Though faire as ever living wight was fayre , Though nor in word nor deede ill meriting , Is from her knight divorced in despayre , And her ...
... thinke how she through guyleful handeling , Though true as touch , though daughter of a king , Though faire as ever living wight was fayre , Though nor in word nor deede ill meriting , Is from her knight divorced in despayre , And her ...
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... thinke that knighthood I so much should shame . As you to leave that have me loved stil , And chose in Faery court , of meere goodwil , Where noblest knights were to be found on earth . The earth shall sooner leave her kindly skil To ...
... thinke that knighthood I so much should shame . As you to leave that have me loved stil , And chose in Faery court , of meere goodwil , Where noblest knights were to be found on earth . The earth shall sooner leave her kindly skil To ...
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Page 90 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The...
Page 18 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 389 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 500 - ... anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and, if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly...
Page 427 - ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away : Agayne I wrote it with a second hand ; But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray.
Page 16 - ... 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. The beginning therefore of my history, if it were to be told by an historiographer, should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her annuall feaste xii.
Page 18 - Ne ever would to any by-way bend, But still did follow one unto the end, The which at last out of the wood them brought. So forward on his way (with God to frend) He passed forth, and new adventure sought; Long way he travelled, before he heard of ought.
Page 412 - Of fowles so lovely, that they sure did deeme Them heavenly borne, or to be that same payre Which through the skie draw Venus...
Page 16 - So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all...
Page 346 - I well consider all that ye have sayd, And find that all things stedfastnes doe hate And changed be: yet being rightly wayd, They are not changed from their first estate; But by their change their being doe dilate: And turning to themselves at length againe, Doe worke their owne perfection so by fate: Then over them Change doth not rule and raigne; But they raigne over Change, and doe their states maintaine.