Spenser's Faerie Queene, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1758 - Epic poetry, English |
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... Shall find that from the point where they first tooke Their fetting forth , in these few thousand yeares They all are wandred much ; that plaine appeares : For that fame golden fleecy ram , which bore Phrixus and Helle from their ...
... Shall find that from the point where they first tooke Their fetting forth , in these few thousand yeares They all are wandred much ; that plaine appeares : For that fame golden fleecy ram , which bore Phrixus and Helle from their ...
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... shall you fhew . This day as I in folace fate hereby With a fayre love whofe loffe I now do rew , There came this knight , having in companie This luckleffe ladie which now here doth beadlesse lie . XVII . He , whether mine feem'd ...
... shall you fhew . This day as I in folace fate hereby With a fayre love whofe loffe I now do rew , There came this knight , having in companie This luckleffe ladie which now here doth beadlesse lie . XVII . He , whether mine feem'd ...
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... winne away , And then my love ( though now it little skill , ) Yet my good lucke be shall not likewise pray ; But I will it defend whilft ever that I may . XV . So XV . So having fayd , the younger did enfew 42 The fifth Booke of the.
... winne away , And then my love ( though now it little skill , ) Yet my good lucke be shall not likewise pray ; But I will it defend whilft ever that I may . XV . So XV . So having fayd , the younger did enfew 42 The fifth Booke of the.
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... shall us afford . Then for affurance to my doome to ftand , Under my foote let each lay downe his fword ; And then you shall my fentence understand . So each of them layd downe his fword out of his hand . XVII . Then Artegall thus to ...
... shall us afford . Then for affurance to my doome to ftand , Under my foote let each lay downe his fword ; And then you shall my fentence understand . So each of them layd downe his fword out of his hand . XVII . Then Artegall thus to ...
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... shall obay My law , and ever to my lore be bound ; And fo will I , if me he vanquish may ; Whatever he shall like to doe or fay : Goe freight , and take with thee to witnesse it Sixe of thy fellowes of the beft array , And beare with ...
... shall obay My law , and ever to my lore be bound ; And fo will I , if me he vanquish may ; Whatever he shall like to doe or fay : Goe freight , and take with thee to witnesse it Sixe of thy fellowes of the beft array , And beare with ...
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Page 426 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 413 - In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 316 - Then came the Autumne all in yellow clad, As though he joye'd in his plentious store, Laden with fruits that made him laugh, full glad That he had banisht hunger, which to-fore Had by the belly oft him pinche'd sore : Upon his head a wreath, that was enrold With ears of corne of every sort, he bore ; And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
Page 319 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood...
Page 154 - OF Court, it seemes, men Courtesie doe call, For that it there most useth to abound ; And well beseemeth that in Princes hall That Vertue should be plentifully found, Which of all goodly manners is the ground, And roote of civill conversation...
Page 647 - GOD, whose never-failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth ; We humbly beseech thee to put away from us all hurtful things, and to give us those things which be profitable for us ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 319 - Then came October full of merry glee; For yet his noule was totty of the must. Which he was treading in the wine-fats see.
Page 351 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 324 - Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, Of that same time when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things, firmely stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie ; For all that moveth doth in Change delight : But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight : O ! that great Sabaoth God, grant me that Sabaoths sight ! COMPLAINT OF THALIA (COMEDY).
Page 526 - The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine.