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... noble corage seene , That in advauntage would his puissaunce bost : Honour is least , where oddes appeareth most . May bee , that better reason will aswage The rash revengers heat . Words , well dispost , Have secrete powre ť ' appease ...
... noble corage seene , That in advauntage would his puissaunce bost : Honour is least , where oddes appeareth most . May bee , that better reason will aswage The rash revengers heat . Words , well dispost , Have secrete powre ť ' appease ...
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... hope ever to aspire , By faithfull service and meete amenaunce , Unto such blisse ? sufficient were that hire For losse of thousand lives , to die at her desire . " VI . Said Guyon , " Noble Lord , what 22 22 [ B. THE FAERIE QUEENE .
... hope ever to aspire , By faithfull service and meete amenaunce , Unto such blisse ? sufficient were that hire For losse of thousand lives , to die at her desire . " VI . Said Guyon , " Noble Lord , what 22 22 [ B. THE FAERIE QUEENE .
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Edmund Spenser. VI . Said Guyon , " Noble Lord , what meed so great , Or grace of earthly Prince so soveraine , But by your wondrous worth and warlike feat Ye well may hope , and easely attaine ? But were your will her sold to entertaine ...
Edmund Spenser. VI . Said Guyon , " Noble Lord , what meed so great , Or grace of earthly Prince so soveraine , But by your wondrous worth and warlike feat Ye well may hope , and easely attaine ? But were your will her sold to entertaine ...
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... noble parentage , That sought with her to lincke in marriage : For shee was faire , as faire mote ever bee , And in the flowre now of her freshest age ; Yet full of grace and goodly modestee , That even heven reioyced her sweete face to ...
... noble parentage , That sought with her to lincke in marriage : For shee was faire , as faire mote ever bee , And in the flowre now of her freshest age ; Yet full of grace and goodly modestee , That even heven reioyced her sweete face to ...
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... noble deeds above the northern starre Immortall Fame for ever hath enrold ; As in that Old Mans booke they were in order told . V. The Land which warlike Britons now possesse , And therein have their mighty empire raysd , In antique ...
... noble deeds above the northern starre Immortall Fame for ever hath enrold ; As in that Old Mans booke they were in order told . V. The Land which warlike Britons now possesse , And therein have their mighty empire raysd , In antique ...
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armes attonce batteill beast behold bold bowre brest Britomart Britons brought carcas chaunge corage courser cruell Dame Damzell daunger dayes deare despight devize dight dismayd doth dreadfull Eftsoones emongst eternall evermore FAERIE QUEENE Faery Faery Knight faire faire Ladies false farre fayre feare fearefull feendes fell fierce Florimell flowre fowle fownd gentle goodly groning ground Guyon hart hath herselfe heven hight himselfe Knight Ladies late light living Locrine Malbecco Mayd mighty mote nigh noble nought Palmer Paridell powre prayse Prince puissaunce ryde Satyrane sayd seemd sence shee shew shield shyning sight sith sonne soone sore sory soveraine speare spide spright Squyre stayd straunge sunne swayd sweet syde thee thou traveill trew unto vaine vertue Villeins wanton warlike weene weet wemens whenas wicked wight wize wondrous wonne wound wyde XLIII XXXVI XXXVIII
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Page 1 - O the exceeding grace Of highest God that loves His creatures so, And all His works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels He sends to and fro To serve to wicked man, to serve His wicked foe.
Page 108 - Such as attonce might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere : Right hard it was for wight which did it heare, To read what manner musicke that mote bee ; For all that pleasing is to living eare Was there consorted in one harmonee ; Birdes, voices, instruments, windes, waters, all agree : LXXI. The ioyous birdes, shrouded in chearefull shade, Their notes unto the voice attempred sweet ; Th...
Page 2 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward: O why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Page 108 - To th; instruments divine respondence meet ; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall ; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 232 - ... quight: And their great mother Venus did lament The losse of her deare brood, her deare delight: Her hart was pierst with pitty at the sight, When walking through the Gardin them she spyde. Yet no'te...
Page 68 - But in a body which doth freely yeeld His partes to Reasons rule obedient, And letteth Her that ought the scepter weeld, All happy peace and goodly government Is setled there in sure establishment.
Page 107 - Withall she laughed, and she blusht withall, That blushing to her laughter gave more grace, And laughter to her blushing, as did fall.
Page 220 - Her Berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the ioyous prime ; And all her whole creation did her shew Pure and unspotted from all loathly crime That is ingenerate in fleshly slime.
Page 383 - How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare, Hope to endure, sith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bits?
Page 352 - To her I sing of love, that loveth best, And best is lov'd of all alive, I weene ; To her this song most fitly is addrest, The Queene of love, and Prince of peace from heaven blest.