Works of Edmund SpenserGeorge Routledge, 1877 - 562 pages |
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... dame ; And cursed heven ; and spake reprochful shame Of highest God , the Lord of life and light . A bold bad man ! that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon , prince of darknes and dead night ; At which Cocytus quakes , and Styx is put ...
... dame ; And cursed heven ; and spake reprochful shame Of highest God , the Lord of life and light . A bold bad man ! that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon , prince of darknes and dead night ; At which Cocytus quakes , and Styx is put ...
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... dame Pleasures toy , XLVIII . And she her selfe , of beautie soveraigne queene , Fayre Venus , seemde unto his bed to bring Her , whom he , waking , evermore did weene To bee the chastest flowre that aye did spring On earthly braunch ...
... dame Pleasures toy , XLVIII . And she her selfe , of beautie soveraigne queene , Fayre Venus , seemde unto his bed to bring Her , whom he , waking , evermore did weene To bee the chastest flowre that aye did spring On earthly braunch ...
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... Dame , subiect to hard mischaunce , And to your mighty will . " Her humblesse low In so ritch weedes , and seeming glorious show , Did much emmove his stout heroicke heart ; And said , " Deare dame , your suddein overthrow Much rueth me ...
... Dame , subiect to hard mischaunce , And to your mighty will . " Her humblesse low In so ritch weedes , and seeming glorious show , Did much emmove his stout heroicke heart ; And said , " Deare dame , your suddein overthrow Much rueth me ...
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... Dame Una , weary Dame , and entrance did requere : Gan shut the dore . By this arrived there XIII . Which when none yielded , her unruly page With his rude clawes the wicket open rent , And let her in ; where , of his cruell rage Nigh ...
... Dame Una , weary Dame , and entrance did requere : Gan shut the dore . By this arrived there XIII . Which when none yielded , her unruly page With his rude clawes the wicket open rent , And let her in ; where , of his cruell rage Nigh ...
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... dame , Far be it from your thought , and fro my wil , To thinke that knighthood I so much should As you to leave that have me loved stil , [ shame , And chose in Faery court , of meere goodwil , Where noblest Knights were to be found on ...
... dame , Far be it from your thought , and fro my wil , To thinke that knighthood I so much should As you to leave that have me loved stil , [ shame , And chose in Faery court , of meere goodwil , Where noblest Knights were to be found on ...
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Page 18 - And layd her stole aside. Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place : Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
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Page 23 - And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne, His belly was up-blowne with luxury, And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne, And like a Crane his necke was long and fyne, With which he swallowd up excessive feast, For want whereof poore people oft did pyne; And all the way, most like a brutish beast, He spued up his gorge, that all did him deteast.
Page 10 - And, as she lay upon the durtie ground, Her huge long taile her den all overspred, Yet was in knots and many boughtes upwound, Pointed with mortall sting. Of her there bred A thousand yong ones, which she dayly fed, Sucking upon her poisnous dugs ; each one Of sundrie shapes, yet all ill-favored : Soone as that uncouth light upon them shone, Into her mouth they crept, and suddain all were gone.
Page 10 - Now, now, Sir knight, shew what ye bee; Add faith unto your force, and be not faint; Strangle her, els she sure will strangle thee." That when he heard, in great perplexitie, His gall did grate for griefe and high disdaine; And, knitting all his force, got one hand free, Wherewith he grypt her gorge with so great paine, That soone to loose her wicked bands did her constraine.
Page 18 - How does he find in cruell hart to hate Her, that him lov'd, and ever most adord As the god of my life ? why hath he me abhord ? " Redounding teares did choke th...