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Page 49
... if the coarseness of our speech , ( I mean the course of custom which he would not infringe , ) had been no more let unto him than their pure native tongues were unto them , he would have , if it might be , surpassed them .
... if the coarseness of our speech , ( I mean the course of custom which he would not infringe , ) had been no more let unto him than their pure native tongues were unto them , he would have , if it might be , surpassed them .
Page 84
Therefore ( said I ) , turning myselfe to M , Spenser , It is you sir , to whom it pertaineth to shew yourselfe courteous now unto vs all and to make vs all beholding unto you for the pleasure and profit which we shall gather from your ...
Therefore ( said I ) , turning myselfe to M , Spenser , It is you sir , to whom it pertaineth to shew yourselfe courteous now unto vs all and to make vs all beholding unto you for the pleasure and profit which we shall gather from your ...
Page 112
He will not creepe , nor crouche with fained face , But walkes upright with comely stedfast pace , And unto all doth yeeld due curtesie ; But not with kissed hand belowe the knee , As that same Apish crue is wont to doo : For he ...
He will not creepe , nor crouche with fained face , But walkes upright with comely stedfast pace , And unto all doth yeeld due curtesie ; But not with kissed hand belowe the knee , As that same Apish crue is wont to doo : For he ...
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| Title | Spenser British Writers Series The Gale library of lives and letters. British writers series “The” Gale Library of lives and letters |
| Author | Richard William Church |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1968 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2017 |
| ISBN | 0810330571, 9780810330573 |
| Length | 188 pages |
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